TASK 1 – P1
Definition of Project Management
The definition of Project Management is where you are initiating, planning, executing,
controlling and closing the work of a team. This is needed when trying to complete a specific
goal to meet the specified time criteria.
Starting the Project
When starting a project, you need to determine if the project is worth pursuing, this means that
the idea for the project must be something that is worth spending time on due to so many
people having ideas but them not being that good. Then once you have decided that you
want to pursue the project itself then you get all the basic information together which requires
a lot of information so that you can move onto the next phase of the project planning.
Developing the Project Specification and Project Plan
Project Specifications: Specifications on an objective, this is a comprehensive description of
the objectives that are needed to develop a project. The things it contains are goals,
functionality, and details that are required to complete the tasks that fulfil the client’s needs.
Project Planning: This is the step in a project where you need to start writing the
documentation, which is required to ensure the project completion was successful. The project
planning requires detail on these: setting project goals, identifying project deliverables,
creating project schedules, creating supporting plans, setting smaller milestones to stay on
target.
Carrying out the Work
This normally is the stage that is repeated as you can have multiple stages. This is classed as a
delivery stage/stages, in this stage you give out certain work or tasks to a team of people to
do and get progress information back. The reason for this is, you need to make sure that the
project stays on track and doesn’t start going off on a tangent. If things were to go off track,
then the project would need to be referred back for discussion and to make a decision.
Within this stage there is a few other things to consider; allowances for unplanned stuff, used
any time management approach – time management allowance for unexpected things. If
these things aren’t considered the schedule will fall apart quite quickly due other things
occurring and not being on the original plan.
Closing the Project
Closing a project: Project closure is important as this is the stage where you shut the project
down. When the project is done you need to start working on the project management side
which is where there is the more technical side of things. This is where you need to summarise
what has been done and include details on resources and other details. This is needed as the
documentation will be stored and may be required in the future.
Definition of Project Management
The definition of Project Management is where you are initiating, planning, executing,
controlling and closing the work of a team. This is needed when trying to complete a specific
goal to meet the specified time criteria.
Starting the Project
When starting a project, you need to determine if the project is worth pursuing, this means that
the idea for the project must be something that is worth spending time on due to so many
people having ideas but them not being that good. Then once you have decided that you
want to pursue the project itself then you get all the basic information together which requires
a lot of information so that you can move onto the next phase of the project planning.
Developing the Project Specification and Project Plan
Project Specifications: Specifications on an objective, this is a comprehensive description of
the objectives that are needed to develop a project. The things it contains are goals,
functionality, and details that are required to complete the tasks that fulfil the client’s needs.
Project Planning: This is the step in a project where you need to start writing the
documentation, which is required to ensure the project completion was successful. The project
planning requires detail on these: setting project goals, identifying project deliverables,
creating project schedules, creating supporting plans, setting smaller milestones to stay on
target.
Carrying out the Work
This normally is the stage that is repeated as you can have multiple stages. This is classed as a
delivery stage/stages, in this stage you give out certain work or tasks to a team of people to
do and get progress information back. The reason for this is, you need to make sure that the
project stays on track and doesn’t start going off on a tangent. If things were to go off track,
then the project would need to be referred back for discussion and to make a decision.
Within this stage there is a few other things to consider; allowances for unplanned stuff, used
any time management approach – time management allowance for unexpected things. If
these things aren’t considered the schedule will fall apart quite quickly due other things
occurring and not being on the original plan.
Closing the Project
Closing a project: Project closure is important as this is the stage where you shut the project
down. When the project is done you need to start working on the project management side
which is where there is the more technical side of things. This is where you need to summarise
what has been done and include details on resources and other details. This is needed as the
documentation will be stored and may be required in the future.
