Purposes of Project Life Cycle Process Models

April 26, 2008 | Author: PM Hut | Filed under: Project Lifecycle Phases

Purposes of Project Life Cycle Process Models
By Dr.Russell Archibald

The purposes of designing and documenting the overall project life cycle process for each project category are to:

  • Enable all persons concerned with creating, planning and executing projects to understand the process to be followed during the life of the project.
  • Capture the best experience within the organization so that the life cycle process can be improved continually and duplicated on future projects.
  • Enable all the project roles and responsibilities, and the project planning, estimating, scheduling, monitoring and control methods and tools, to be appropriately related to the overall project life cycle management process.

Unless a well-documented, understandable picture of the life cycle process – the model — for each project category/subcategory exists it will be difficult to achieve the full benefits of modern, systematic project management.

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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