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Project Management Methodology

A project management methodology is a set of inter-related phases, activities and tasks that define the project process from the start through to completion. Each phase of the project produces a major deliverable that contributes towards achieving project objectives. The objective is to provide common standards to ensure that projects are conducted in a disciplined, well-managed, and consistent manner, resulting in projects that are completed on time and within budget. Large, complex projects require a more rigorous application of management processes than small, well-defined projects with readily achievable goals. A well-designed project management methodology supports this need for flexibility.

Procept can work with your organization to custom design a project management methodology using industry leading best practices like PMI’s PMBOK and PRINCE2 as a basic framework. This typically consists of creating a project management process map, which is a checklist, organized by project life cycle phases and consisting of project management tasks, deliverables and quality gates. The supporting document to a process map, a Project Management Process Guide consists of answers to five questions relative to each task/deliverable/quality gate in the Model. The questions are:

1. What is the task?
2. Why is the task necessary?
3. When should the task be done relative to other tasks?
4. Who should perform the task?
5. What is the quality gate?

This guide provides direction on how to use the model for different kinds of projects and can be used to familiarize new staff with your organization’s project management process.

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