Project management
Fig 21.6. The general flow of project management
Don’t tell me what’s right
It might be clear from the foregoing that the secret of successful project management is in the planning. Isn’t this always the way. Once the project is running:
Measure the progress of each step against the predetermined milestones according to a set time schedule.
Proceed automatically to the next step if nothing is awry.
If the results at any stage are outside of the predetermined range of acceptable values, intervene immediately.
You need to do two things as each checkpoint is reached. The first is to ensure that an exception report is triggered ...
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