An Alternative Project Management Introduction

An Alternative Project Management Introduction.

"A project is a sequence of unique, complex and connected activities having one goal or purpose and that must be completed by a specific time, within budget, and according to specification". To analyze the definition of the Project, we will see the words unique, complex and connected activities. Reading deep inside the word-connected activities is lots of communications between each element of the project and those who involved in the project such as employee, management and executive.

How the words of Unique, Complex and connected activities play a roll in the Project Planning process? “Project Planning focuses on the finding clear, discrete activities and in the work needed to complete each activity within a single project”.

Project Manager who is an individual with various skills such as leadership, management, customer relations, technical problem solving, conflict management, team management, and risk and change management.

To be a successful project manager need to describe and identify the structure of each level of the project process. One of the tools can help the project manager to complete the project with an accurate time is “Gantt Charts: A horizontal bar chart that depicts project tasks against a calendar. Each bar represents a names project task. The tasks are listed vertically in the left-hand column. On a Gantt chart, the horizontal axis is a calendar timeline”.

Project manager while puts breakdown of the project planning will need to creating a preliminary budget, estimating resources, creating a resource plan, developing a statement of work and determining project standards and procedures that can be related to the word Unique.

 Also describing project scope and alternatives. Developing an understanding of the content and complexity of the project. Dividing the project into manageable tasks. Divide the entire project into manageable tasks, and then logically order them to insure a smooth evolution between tasks we can relate that to the word complex.

Connecting activates can be accomplished by developing a communication plan and Setting a baseline project plan.

Now we can see why we need the project manager with various skills to work on a project.