Integrated Project Management

Summary

Projects can be categorized usefully as basic, major, or macro projects. The project type is determined by the number and variety of tasks required for the project's completion. A project that needs 30 or fewer task leaders and works within one technology or methodology fits the definition of a basic project. It has one project manager and one project management team that is made up of the project's task leaders.

A major project requires more than 30 tasks leaders and/or requires leaders who each have a different technical expertise as managers. A major project breaks down into several basic projects, each with their own basic project manager who leads the planning and execution of the basic project. Each basic project works to a specification ...