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

Can you do the project; should you do the project?

Once you have a Project Plan and a view of the time and cost of a project, you may feel it is time to get started. Almost – but you need to ask yourself a couple of important questions:

1. Can you do the project? Is it possible? If your plan shows you need 50 people to do your project and you only have 10, or it will cost £1 million and you only have £10,000, then it is not possible – or at least not possible in the way you are currently proposing.

2. Should you do the project? Is it viable and economically sensible? Do you meet the conditions you set yourself (if they exist – is there a maximum time or cost you need it done within)? If you do the project, will you meet your original ‘why’? If your ...