Project Management Methodologies

Do you find integrating Project Management tasks with the development or technical tasks challenging?

Project Management Methodology.  Integrating Project Management tasks with the development or technical tasks of a project is the challenge that organizations face today.

After working on many projects we have defined a practical set of PM tasks that conform to the industry standards but are designed to be “actionable” within the project framework.

Project Management seems to be a continuous stream of tasks that must be performed from concept through delivery. So should these tasks be separate from the project as an oversight set of tasks? Should these be integrated with the development tasks? If so, how? What are the roles and responsibilities of the development team? What are the interfaces to PM team? After working on many projects we have defined a practical set of PM tasks that conform to the industry standards but are designed to be “actionable” within the project framework. Merging the PM tasks with development tasks is made easy with 6D Project Catalyst.

Core PM Lifecycle This methodology covers all the phases of project management from requesting/proposing a project through its initiation, planning, execution, control, deployment and closeout stages. Each task is clearly defined with roles and responsibilities. All major deliverables are covered including: Kickoff Agendas, Business Case, Project Charter, Scope, Communication and Risk Plans, training plans, etc. The methodology tasks are designed to allow organizations to select the tasks from this standard PM Lifecycle and wrap them around technical tasks to ensure full coverage of both project management and technical development. This methodology is designed to be used on any project and is not restricted to only Information Technology projects.