A project manager (PM) who can complete a project successfully is a skilled person that is vital to any construction project. Some people think that a project manager's job only involves arranging status meetings and reminding each one in the team about deadlines. However, that's not the case at all. Project managers incorporate science into their work. They can execute the five phases of project management with perfection because they have a profound understanding of how it should be done.
PMI is the world's largest non-profit project management profession membership association. It offers training and certifications as well as set the standards for portfolio, program, and project management.
The project life cycle undergoes five stages:
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First Stage: Project Visualisation, Selling, and Initiation
An effective method to get support for an idea or project is to establish a connection to what is vital to the group or individual that you want to approach and show that you are explicitly beseeching their input. When you do that, those people can aid in shaping the concept.
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Second Stage: Project Planning
At this stage, it is assumed that the feasibility and concept of the project have been resolved. You need to apply the PDCA or plan-do-check-act cycle directly to the planning and management of the project.
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Third Stage: Process and Output Design
The project team may continue with the design of the content once the project got the approval to proceed. The project team can begin assigning and gathering the items and persons that will play an important role in the project implementation.
The design process involves defining:
- Schedules for implementation
- The design of the fundamental outputs and processes
- Criteria for evaluation
- Protocols on status reporting
- The method of monitoring
- Measurements
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Fourth Stage: Project Implementation and Tracking
The project design team could also be the ones to carry out the project, most likely with some assistance from additional personnel. To check whether the project design and outputs satisfy the objectives, the team may conduct a trial project implementation.
The implementation team, with the help of the planned reporting methods, must monitor the project and report the status and project milestones to appropriate parties. The implementation team makes the necessary actions, which must be approved, to make sure that the project will run smoothly.
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Fifth Stage: Project Evaluation and Closing
Once the scheduled tasks have been accomplished, the implementation team closes the project. In most cases, evaluations are done to ascertain:
- The lessons learned, evaluations, and compilation of project documents
- Effectiveness of the team that implemented the project
- Effectiveness of the team that planned the project
- Planned outputs versus the outcomes achieved
- Budget versus costs
- Planned resource usage versus actual resources used
- A planned schedule of tasks versus the actual ones
- Planned objectives versus objectives reached
The project officially ends, the participants are acknowledged for their efforts, and they disband.
Many organisations find the post-implementation assessment more valuable in some projects as compared to the time when the project was being implemented. This may happen a few months after the completion of the project.
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