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Documenting a Project Life Cycle Management Process
July 30, 2008 | Author: PM Hut | Filed under: Project Lifecycle Phases, Project Management Best Practices
Documenting a Project Life Cycle Management Process
By Dr.Russell Archibald
For each project category or subcategory we must document and describe the project life cycle process to:
- Select the life cycle model to use, name the phases and sub-phases, determine their interrelationships, and identify the key decision points.
- Describe the methods, procedures, forms, documents, tools, systems, and other practices for authorizing, planning, analyzing and mitigating risks, budgeting, scheduling, monitoring, and controlling all projects within the category.
- Specify the documents and related levels of approval authority for initiating and authorizing new projects and major changes to authorized projects.
- Identify the key project roles and define their responsibilities and authority.
- Identify and describe the major deliverables to be produced in each phase and sub-phase.
- Specify the procedures for escalating the inevitable conflicts (competition for key resources, priorities between projects, and others) and unresolved issues to the appropriate level for their prompt resolution.
The detailed project management project process for a given project category must also include provisions for handling projects of different sizes, complexities, risks, durations, sources of funding, and serving different customers.
Dr. Russell D. Archibald, PhD (Hon), MSc, Fellow PMI and APM/IPMA, PMP, is one of the six founding members of the Project Management Institute. Now semi-retired, he has many years of management experience in engineering and operations with a variety of major US corporations in Europe and South America as well as the US. He has made major contributions to the understanding of project management, is author of the best selling 2003 book “Managing High-Technology Programs and Projects” (published also in Russian, Chinese, and Italian), has trained more than a thousand program and project managers and project specialists around the world, and has consulted in project management to clients in 14 countries on 4 continents. E-mail: russell_archibald@yahoo.com. Website: www.russarchibald.com.
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Dr. Archibald, what kind of forms, documents and reports do you suggest during each of the particular phases of the SDLC? Do you have any suggestions or resources? I would have liked to see some examples rather than just generalities. Thank you!