Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices

Author: Daniel Linman

managing project resources

PM Tips & Ideas

Project Resource Management Software – The Meaning and Benefits

Managing project resources is one of the critical management activities aimed at finding the balanced allocation and levelling of available project resources and optimizing resource utilization and consumption. The project resource management process focuses on planning, scheduling and allocating resources required for initiating and executing a project and its phases. Usually this process is successfully implemented with help of project resource management software which allows using spreadsheets, estimates, templates, to-do lists and reports to plan and utilize project resources.
What is Project Resource Management Software?

It is a computer program to simplify planning and using of resources by providing tools for achieving the balance between project resource requirements, schedules, availability, and optimization opportunities. Project resource management tools allow managing what, where and when a resource should be available and utilized to achieve the optimum project outcome.

prior to project initiation

PM Framework

Project Pre-Charter as a Sub-Phase of the Initiation Phase

The project initiation phase is the first phase within the project lifecycle to approve a project’s idea and make a foundation for planning the project. Usually this phase includes Project Pre-Charter which is a sub phase an organization goes through to decide whether to launch the project, what reasons for project initiation are and what form the project should take. The project pre-charter sub-phase is a step to be taken before the development of project charter. The project initiation phase consists of the pre-charter sub-phase and the charter phase. In this article, I will talk about the first sub-phase and my focus will be on the project pre-charter definition and tasks.

Stating Project Quality Policy

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Stating Project Quality Policy

Strategic planning of project quality requires the development of a policy that could state high-level goals and general direction the project quality management process. A project quality policy is an effect tool of quality management to identify the right way for an organization to implement a project following expected quality levels and performance. In this article we try to answer the question “What is project quality policy?” and determine approaches for implementing this policy.

project scope statement

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Project Scope Statement

How to write a project scope statement document? This question is the central one during the project initiation phase because a well-written project scope statement example is the guarantee that the project description, boundaries, deliverables and approaches are determined and stated in clear and unambiguous terms. In this article we will talk about the project scope statement definition and what sections are included into the scope statement document.

control project quality

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Project Quality Control

Project quality control refers to a set of procedures aimed at monitoring and recording status and results of executing the quality management plan and implementing the quality strategy in order to measure performance levels and generate recommendations for necessary changes. Project quality control procedures are performed throughout the project lifecycle. They allow identifying causes of poor quality and recommending actions to eliminate quality gaps and adhere to the original quality requirements. The project quality control process is undertaken by Quality Control Department, or another similar organizational unit.