Project Management

Project Management is a tool used for planning and controlling complex projects. A project’s success depends on planning, monitoring, and tracking - the techniques of project management. Refining these techniques produces optimal results: the best use of available resources and the least time and money spent. Project planning means anticipating the steps needed to complete a project. It includes identifying tasks and their sequence, establishing a project schedule that includes milestones and deadlines, and estimating what resources will be needed, and at what cost. A project plan is a model that reflects a project’s component parts and their relationships.

Once a project is underway the project manager may discover that the task cannot be completed on time or that needed materials are unavailable. How will these changes affect the rest of the project? Will the project be completed on time and come in under budget? Project monitoring takes into account unexpected changes: in effect, project monitoring is “real time” planning in which you alter the project in progress and observe the resulting changes in the plan. While project monitoring is forward-looking in nature, project tracking is historical. Data from completed parts of the a project is compared with earlier projections. This information - on duration of tasks, resources expended, and costs incurred - is not only used for accounting and billing, but can indicate how efficiently a project is proceeding. Project-tracking data from one project to another can lead to improved planning on other projects.

By understanding the statement of work, providing project specifications, developing the work breakdown structure and milestone schedule, you will be able to precisely define:

·         What will be accomplished

·         How it will be accomplished

·         Where it will be accomplished

·         When it will be accomplished

·         Why it will be accomplished

We can help with your project management needs by assisting you in:

·         Building the model, i.e., identifying the project’s component operations or activities, and constructing the network diagram (defining events, describing activities, defining the rules of logic, estimating duration, identifying task sequencing, and allocating resources and costs)

·         Analyzing your project (time and resource analysis, resource leveling)

·         Providing charts and reports (Gantt, PERT charts or logic diagrams, resource use, and historical and variance reports)

·         Project monitoring and tracking