Project Management Step by Step: How to Plan and Manage a Highly Successful Project

References

• Copies of the Project Definition table (2.1) can be downloaded from the web site http://www.pearson-books.com

• If you really want to explore this topic in more detail, try:

  The Project Manager: Mastering the Art of Delivery (Financial Times Prentice Hall) by Richard Newton, 2005, Chapter 2.

To Do Now There is no better way to learn than by doing, so print off a copy of the Project Definition template (Table 2.1) and start to complete it for your project. As you fill it in ask yourself: How much detail should you go into? For the project you are about to start, who are you going to work with to develop the Project Definition? How are you going to ensure they agree and commit to it? The end result of the Project Definition should be a document ...