The Project Management Life Cycle

Jason Westland is the founder of www.Method123.com. As a Project Director, General Manager and CEO, he has helped Project Managers around the world undertake projects successfully. His greatest challenge was managing the British Rail's technology realignment programme.

chapter 1overview 1.1 introduction 1.2 what is a project? 1.3 what is project management? 1.4 the project life cycle chapter 2project initiation 2.1 introduction 2.2 develop a business case 2.3 undertake a feasibility study 2.4 establish the terms of reference 2.5 appoint the project team 2.6 set up the project office 2.7 perform a phase review chapter 3project planning 3.1 introduction 3.2 create a project plan 3.3 create a resource plan 3.4 create a financial plan 3.5 create a quality plan 3.6 create a risk plan 3.7 create an acceptance plan 3.8 create a communications plan 3.9 create a procurement plan 3.10 contract the suppliers 3.11 perform a phase review chapter 4project execution 4.1 introduction 4.2 build deliverables 4.3 monitor and control 4.4 perform time management 4.5 perform cost management 4.6 perform quality management 4.7 perform change management 4.8 perform risk management 4.9 perform issue management 4.10 perform procurement management 4.11 perform acceptance management 4.12 perform communications management 4.13 perform a phase review chapter 5project closure 5.1 introduction 5.2 perform project closure 5.3 review project completion chapter 6epilogue appendix: project lifecycle activity model and documents list