The optimal distribution of work effort on the five process groups of project management is as follows:
1- Initiating: 7%
2- Planning: 18%
3- Executing: 50%
4- Monitoring and Control: 18%
5- Closing: 7%
The above is my principle in research projects, and it is useful and practical. Saving Changes...
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Thomas WalentaGlobal Project Economy ExpertHackenheim, Germany
Thanks for sharing, interesting.
The PMI exam has a slightly different distribution of questions to the domains in the exam (and yes this is a different question).
Did you consider that work effort in process groups is ONLY spent by project management, not the project team doing the 'real' work? Together this project management effort amounts to 10-15% of overall project efforts.
The project team, the subject matter experts (like designers, developers, testers) are spending their efforts in the project phases as defied by the project life cycle or value delivery framework. Saving Changes...
Thank you for sharing. It may be different based on the type of research and industry, though. Saving Changes...
Andre CassuleFEED and Detailed Engineering, Project management| DEALLuanda, Luanda, Angola
It is in the monitoring phase that the verification of the execution is performed to know if everything that was planned is being properly executed.
It is also at this stage that meetings are ongoing between project teams or stakeholders, preferably weekly and daily updates.
At these meetings, all information, potential obstacles and the overall progress of the project need to be communicated or reported. Saving Changes...
