Integrated Project Management

Introduction

The roles played by IPM team members differ greatly from those played by teams using other project management methods. The big differences center around planning and communication.

Most frequently with other methods, the project manager does all the planning. Sometimes a project manager will seek task recommendations and time estimates from specialists who may end up doing the project work, but their input is advisory. The project manager will act on this input to develop the final project task list, the sequence list, and the task times estimates, and will assign team members tasks within the expected sequence, indicating how long each task should take. When a task worker or group completes a task(s), their association with the ...