Integrated Project Management

Introduction

When the sponsor has approved the project plan, the project manager must make sure that the team gets to work. The tasks that have no predecessors must start immediately. It is not automatic. The project manager must make sure that the leaders of the first tasks are all ready to go and do, in fact, start. As the tasks are approaching completion, the project manager must make sure that the successor task teams are ready to go, and do start working. Tasks leaders who are not scheduled to start their tasks until the project is well underway may lose track of their start date unless the project manager keeps them well connected to the project.

The project manager keeps him- or herself well connected to the project by visiting with task ...