When we think about planning. What comes to our mind.
Planning is the way to look the roadmap and meticulously document what it takes to deliver. So when I say "What it takes to deliver" it means it needs to understand all knowledge areas (Integration, scope, hr, procurement etc..) What understanding what it takes to deliver the project manager has also to think What roles and responsibility will it require.
So for example in scenario IT: A project needs to build to ensure hrms works perfectly well in the organization. The feasibility study was done and it was decided to implement a commercial off the shelf product. Now the project manager needs to decide who are the business stake holders, who would be responsible for delivery who would be responsible for qa and who would be resposible for user acceptance test and who would be responsible for go live. To ensure all this he needs to have a chart with timeline and ensuring all responsible persons are available at correct time. Remember the project has yet not started its just the preparation phase.
Planning is also about understanding risk. As everything is on paper, any project will evolve once it starts getting delivered. Thats the time when you would have changes or iterations. A project manager needs to plan well in advance for the same.
Planning is the way to look the roadmap and meticulously document what it takes to deliver. So when I say "What it takes to deliver" it means it needs to understand all knowledge areas (Integration, scope, hr, procurement etc..) What understanding what it takes to deliver the project manager has also to think What roles and responsibility will it require.
So for example in scenario IT: A project needs to build to ensure hrms works perfectly well in the organization. The feasibility study was done and it was decided to implement a commercial off the shelf product. Now the project manager needs to decide who are the business stake holders, who would be responsible for delivery who would be responsible for qa and who would be resposible for user acceptance test and who would be responsible for go live. To ensure all this he needs to have a chart with timeline and ensuring all responsible persons are available at correct time. Remember the project has yet not started its just the preparation phase.
Planning is also about understanding risk. As everything is on paper, any project will evolve once it starts getting delivered. Thats the time when you would have changes or iterations. A project manager needs to plan well in advance for the same.
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