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Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.

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After starting up and then setting up the plan for a project, it then becomes time to activate it. This means you’ve gotten all your ducks in a row, as the saying goes. In order to carry out the necessities of the project, both the contributing members and other appropriate resources are now ready to go and begin working on project tasks.

Energies can now also shift and be directed so that the project manager role becomes increasingly more active with the team and engaged with the work being done to complete the project. While the planning stage may, understandably, take a significant amount of time, the project execution stage has the capacity to take even more time.

While it is possible to have all project needs addressed ahead of “go time”, it is rare when they stay that way. The dynamics of project management demand that we have all aspects of a project appropriately included so we can get the best outcome. We are also told that we need to be versatile so as to accommodate variables as quickly as possible when they appear during the course of a project, regardless of their origin. This timeframe becomes the most costly, both in terms of money and resources as they are being “activated”.

At this time, the PM is working harder than ever to keep communication flowing and make sure that personnel, equipment and materials are …

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