Total Management Applied to Project Management

A project always refers to something that has not been done before. Yet almost always possible to identify several common phases:

Project phases

Opportunity
Definition
Boot
Development
Closure
Recurrence

Each phase has different key

Key stages of Opportunity

Manage contacts and stakeholders
Objectives, benefits accrued
Profitability analysis
Project Alternatives, Competition

Keys Definition phase

RFP, proposal, contract
Definition of deliverables, product definition result

Key to phases Boot

Kick-Off / Awareness. Awareness, motivation, involvement

In any project is essential to manage and typically take into account human factors such as the involvement and motivation of those involved in it, which are always crucial to its success.

With this in mind, it is interesting include in the starting phase, besides the essential tasks associated with the start of the project (including preparation of working environments), the task of formally identifying the stakeholders "interested or concerned parties and the key users "key users of the project, and hold a Kick-Off Meeting / awareness (Start / Awareness) in presenting the objectives of the project, its phases, its key aspects and the role they play in it every one of the agents. The purpose of this meeting is that everyone in the project concurrren to assimilate the benefits and opportunities it brings.

Keys to Development phases

Power Requirements
Project Management Methodologies

Keys to Closing stages

Closing Act, Act of Acceptance

Special case of IT development projects

Environments methodologies and IT (Information Technology), ICT (Information Technologies and Communication) and NTIC (New Technologies of Information and Communication)

The methodologies used in IT environments can be classified as:

Methodology of Information Systems Management
Methodologies for IT project management
Analysis methodologies and software development

Specific phases of an IT development project

Detection of opportunity
Project definition
Definition of strategy
Definition of methodology
Power requirements, setting objectives
Functional analysis
Technical Design
Development / construction
Testing
Implementation, deployment
Maintenance
Training
Evolution
Closure
Recurrence

At each stage analyzed (SWOT)

Strengths
Weaknesses
Oportunities, Threats
Weaknesses, Vulnerabilities

Transverse

Strategy
Methodology
Quality
Risk
Control, Monitoring
Scope
Synergy and convergence

Keys recrudesce

Manage contacts and stakeholders
Analysis of the synergy and convergence with other projects