Project Management Planning: Strengthening the First Line of Defense against Project Failure

  Manufacturing   Knowledge Shelf  

The challenge
Project management planning is one of the critical components of managing projects and happens to be the first line of defense against project failures. Project management planning constitutes approaches or methods to be adopted in managing various components of the project, such as scope, cost, time, and quality. One of the key challenges in initial planning is choosing the appropriate methods or techniques that are effective to deliver on project objectives within the context of unique project characteristics.

The choice of an ineffective method due to lack of attention to planning can impact a project negatively, whereas an appropriate choice of methods can ease project execution. Often the choice of methods adopted is limited by factors such as the project manager’s past experience, awareness, or insight into a project-specific context. It can become challenging for a project manager to design the project management approach to be adopted when encountered with a new variety of projects wherein the techniques or methods that have worked in the past may not be as effective.

This challenge is felt more by a project manager in a vendor organization who manages projects for a variety of client organizations, in varied client contexts and project types. To aid this process of designing the project management approach to be adopted, we can have a …

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