Project
A project is a momentary work take on to generate an inimitable product, service, or outcome. A good project should have an organized set of work efforts, details that are well elaborated, a clear start and finish, and a inimitable combination of stakeholders. Project management is the use of tools, expertise, knowledge, and procedures to the doings of a project to meet the necessities of the project. It involves work processes, tradeoffs, administrative tasks, and leadership tasks for work associates. Project life cycles comprises of commencement, planning, implementation, monitoring and controlling, and closing. During commencement phase, the problem is identified, and cause analyzed. During planning, the scope of the project is established and objectives refined. Execution phase entails defining the completed work to satisfy the specifications of the project. Monitoring and controlling phase involves tracking, and identifying needed changes and initiating them. Finally during the closing phase, evaluation of effects, and sharing of the results are done. Integration, procurement, schedule, scope cost, resource, quality communication, risk, and stakeholder management are key areas that should be considered. A successful project should meets agreements made, satisfies the needs of the customers and the organization, and attains the team’s loyalty, development, and satisfaction. .A project may fail due to insufficient time and resources, inadequate project planning, unclear expectations, disagreements on expectations by the stakeholders, and changes in the scope not understood or agreed upon. There are different types of project cycles. Predictive cycle defines the product and deliverables at the beginning of the project while adaptive cycle answers to high levels of variation and to continuing participation by the involved parties. For your project to meet its objectives, you need the right people. Steering team, project officers, sponsors, project managers, functional managers, facilitators, customer representatives, subject matter experts, and team members play a key role in project development. The team members document the process, provide expertise, work with users to establish and meet business needs among other roles. For a project to be effective, there should be a collaborative effort among stakeholders. This helps in problem solving, bringing people closer and ensures they learn from one another, opens up new communication channels among other importance.
- Each project has general terms and things for example, the mission and the vision, the goal, and the scope.
- Adaptive approach is projected to continuing stakeholder influence and react to the fluctuations of high level. Adaptive approaches are also iterative and incremental, but are in different since they are fixed in time and cost and that iterations are very quick. In predictive approach the time and cost involved in the project and the scope of the project are established early. The project is well defined and results to be delivered are understood. I would therefore, go for predictive approach.
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