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Project
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We at Salvi
Infonet understand the need of project
management.
Ambiguity is perhaps one of the greatest
causes of failure of projects. Ambiguity
causes scope creep, missed deadlines,
run-away costs, under/over utilization of
resources, and others. It's job of a project
manager or project consultant to identify
and eliminate ambiguities, otherwise your
project plan is nothing more than a guess. |
According to us
the definition of project is:
“Project is a temporary endeavor undertaken
to create a unique product or service.” |
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We consider
project as temporary since once the projects
objectives are met, the project team will
break-up and go onto other projects. The
goal of a project is to create something
new, or unique. |
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Elements of
Project Management |
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Most of the projects have three basic
elements: tasks, resources and time. These
are interrelated and any change in one has
an effect on the other two. Whenever you
make any changes, the affect of those
changes has to be considered. |
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Think of tasks
as individual pieces of work which need to
be done. Some typical tasks may include: |
- Reports
to management
- Pieces
of code for an application
- Project
definition documents
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Any small (or
large) item that contributes to reaching the
state goal of the project
Resources are anything used to meet the
stated goals of the project: |
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For time you
originally start with an estimate on how
long it may take to reach the stated goal of
the project. As the project progresses, the
time estimate becomes more solid as each
piece of the project is examined and a more
firm estimate as to how long it'll take to
produce the individual pieces. |
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These three
elements are interrelated. If you think of
the three as a triangle, in order for the
triangle to remain balanced, any change on
one side required changes on the other two.
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Contact
Salvi
Infonet to learn how Project
Management can help your businesses to
do better & Projects to completed ontime. |