5 Questions PMs Must Ask

Glen is Vice President Program Planning and Controls, Niwot Ridge LLC.

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There are five immutable principles of project management that must be addressed by project leaders and teams in order to succeed. In this new series, we begin with an overview of these principles before exploring in detail how you can put them to work in a variety of business and technical domains.

Project managers are tasked with a wide variety of duties; many are vague, some are difficult, but none are really rewarding in the absence of some chance of project success. This is the first in a series of articles that describes the 5 Immutable Principles of Successful Projects. These principles are the basis for increasing your probability of project success. The five principles, presented as questions, are:

1. What Does Done Look Like?
2. How Do We Get There?
3. Do We Have Enough Time, Resources, And Money To Get There?
4. What Impediments Will We Encounter Along The Way?
5. How Do We Know We Are Making Progress?

The answers to these questions will be explored in subsequent articles, each guided by the underlying framework of a project, program and portfolio management system. This management system can be most any system that meets the need of the project. It needs to be a system that connects projects and their deliverables, with the programs that collect projects into beneficial outcomes, and the portfolio of programs and …

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