Your Guide to Project Management Best Practices

Author: Eric Morkovich

Project Governance

Project Implementation Guide

Project Governance as a Linkage Mechanism

As a project gets into the initiation phase, it requires an effective linkage mechanism that ensures alignment between the strategic project objectives and direction, and the path to planned outcomes over the implementation life-cycle of the project. In other words, such a mechanism must help sustain the project’s potential to deliver the stated benefits. Moreover, this mechanism must provide oversight and control over the project during the execution process. It must help managers and leaders to assess the project’s current progress and adjust content and direction to the objectives if necessary. The mechanism should also allow senior management to refine the definition of success and maintain alignment with the evolving project plan.

steps of the project planning process

PM Tips & Ideas

The Planning Process – Ten Simple Steps to Planning a Project

The project planning process is one of the high-level management processes that make the project lifecycle. It is a complex of tasks for setting up a project plan and also defining subsidiary plans. The project planning process is closely linked to the planning phase which is the second phase within the project lifecycle, according to the PMBOK methodology. It comes after the Initiating Process Group (by PMBOK) and the Direct Project (by PRINCE2). For some project managers, planning a project is a real challenge and sometimes they feel confused when trying to define a problem, develop a strategy, build a WBS, establish communications, build teams and so on

project report template

Templates

Project Report Template

It is impossible to efficiently finalize a project without having developed a comprehensive and informative report. Using project report templates helps project managers to communicate necessary information on project development, implementation and completion to the key stakeholders who have an interest or concern in the project. The following Project Report Template is designed to help project managers with developing a complete structure for their reports. We tried to make the Template comprehensive and included descriptions of the key sections of a typical project report. Also we listed basic suggestions and tips on project reporting.

Project Leadership Skills

Teamwork & Leadership

Top 3 Project Leadership Skills

Best practices of project management and planning make me believe that having well-developed and up-to-date project leadership skills is one of critical aspects to project success. Excellent leadership allows project managers and team leaders to get in front of the competition and put in extra effort on producing project deliverables within allocated budget. Availability of the skills for project leadership ensures successful implementation of project goals, better team coordination and higher project performance. It’s really hard to overestimate the importance of project leading abilities and skills to success. In this article we will talk about the top 3 skills for project leading.