Integrated Project Management

Summary

The Major IPM Steps: Project Meetings and Between-Meeting Activities

The following are the major IPM steps:

1.	Kickoff meeting: As previously described. The project manager will schedule a second meeting if the first runs over two hours.
2.	Task list meeting: The team creates a task list using the affinity diagram procedure. It may require two meetings to complete the list. The last meeting should produce the task list, which is organized under the work packages with the tasks listed in their expected sequence order.
3.	Task time sequence and resources meeting, Gantt chart meeting: The team collaboratively creates the Gantt chart. It may take two or three meetings to do so. Capturing this Gantt chart requires assistance from a computer, ...