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Project Planning: New Priorities for the Future
Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
Like everything else in the project management world, project planning in 2008 is different than it was in 2002--and very different than it was in 1995. To say that project management goals have changed is an understatement. But parts of the process have done some amazing somersaults, improving how goals are achieved and the methodology underlying it all.
What are the new project planning priorities, considerations and critical issues? We’re going to look at a few of the top ones and get some insight from working PMs who have been part of the change process.
Hardly more than two decades ago, technology wasn’t a significant factor in project planning. Projects began the same way they do today: by stakeholders’ asking very basic questions. Obviously, everything starts with the project: its intent, time frame and ultimate goal. And it doesn’t matter what that final goal is. There is always a beginning, middle and end--the desired result. There is a budget, stakeholders, deliverables, milestones, team building, projections, assumptions, adjustments, assessments, reassessments and a whole mess of small variables that are factored into the equation. It doesn’t matter how you define the guts of the project, either. Chalk it up to everything it takes to reach a certain perfect or near-perfect end.
PMs make all this …
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