O’Brien & Marakas (2006), in their book Introduction to information systems, project management is a systematic approach to project planning, organizing, and managing resources, resulting in a project that successfully meets its objectives. A successful project can underlie only with border knowledge and skills in the area with clear understanding of the process. Every project has five underlying processes that require management and they are listed and explained below: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing.
The initiating processes is the groundwork for the project. Here, we clarify the value of the project to the organization, setting its objectives, and estimating the project’s length, scope, and cost. Or, this initiating process is also called as kickoff meeting. Here, the stakeholders meet one another where the team reviews the charter and discuss on next steps in the led of project manager.
The planning processes is a road-map or say guide for executing the project. An organizational chart with detailed description of the work to be performed, scheduling information, predict on success metrics, and system used to monitor the project are included in the process. In the same way, strategies for managing time, quality, human resources, communications, cost, risk, and overall integration are also included.
Executing processes comes under the led of project manager where he enroll all the set process in the field. The project manager need to execute all the details from communicating with stakeholders, allocating work assignments, negotiating contracts, coaching team members, holding meetings, writing updates, doing presentations for the board, to conducting research for the project.
Monitoring and controlling processes is tracking the process from start to end the project. This is also required in order to pinpoint the deviations on plan. The project manager pays close attention on the process.
Closing processes will formally end of the project. The project manager arrange the meeting to conclude the project with celebration. Most of the company missed the lesson learned process which has its importance in upcoming projects. Here, the team members are encourage by their performance and share the learned process during the project.
As a manager, I would follow the five process of project management (i.e. initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing) as explained above to plan, track, and manage projects. Now for the software, I would go for Trello to collaborate, communicate and coordinate on all of my projects. It has features likes’ labels and categories, drag and drop, in-line editing, checklists, uploading of files and attachments, data filtering etc. which would push updates in the cloud storage to all users and also will be the centralized place for my subject-librarianship record-keeping (Heaton, 2015).
References
Heaton, R. (2015). Free Web App Trello.
O’Brien, J. A., & Marakas, G. M. (2006). Management information systems (Vol. 6). McGraw-Hill Irwin.
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O’Brien & Marakas (2006), in their book Introduction to information systems, project management is a systematic approach to project planning, organizing, and managing resources, resulting in a project that successfully meets its objectives. A successful project can underlie only with border knowledge and skills in the area with clear understanding of the process. Every project has five underlying processes that require management and they are listed and explained below: initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing.
The initiating processes is the groundwork for the project. Here, we clarify the value of the project to the organization, setting its objectives, and estimating the project’s length, scope, and cost. Or, this initiating process is also called as kickoff meeting. Here, the stakeholders meet one another where the team reviews the charter and discuss on next steps in the led of project manager.
The planning processes is a road-map or say guide for executing the project. An organizational chart with detailed description of the work to be performed, scheduling information, predict on success metrics, and system used to monitor the project are included in the process. In the same way, strategies for managing time, quality, human resources, communications, cost, risk, and overall integration are also included.
Executing processes comes under the led of project manager where he enroll all the set process in the field. The project manager need to execute all the details from communicating with stakeholders, allocating work assignments, negotiating contracts, coaching team members, holding meetings, writing updates, doing presentations for the board, to conducting research for the project.
Monitoring and controlling processes is tracking the process from start to end the project. This is also required in order to pinpoint the deviations on plan. The project manager pays close attention on the process.
Closing processes will formally end of the project. The project manager arrange the meeting to conclude the project with celebration. Most of the company missed the lesson learned process which has its importance in upcoming projects. Here, the team members are encourage by their performance and share the learned process during the project.
As a manager, I would follow the five process of project management (i.e. initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing) as explained above to plan, track, and manage projects. Now for the software, I would go for Trello to collaborate, communicate and coordinate on all of my projects. It has features likes’ labels and categories, drag and drop, in-line editing, checklists, uploading of files and attachments, data filtering etc. which would push updates in the cloud storage to all users and also will be the centralized place for my subject-librarianship record-keeping (Heaton, 2015).
References
Heaton, R. (2015). Free Web App Trello.
O’Brien, J. A., & Marakas, G. M. (2006). Management information systems (Vol. 6). McGraw-Hill Irwin.