The Manager's Pocket Guide to Project Management

Part II: Your Essential Project Actions

Given the deliverables and phases you identified in Part I, what actions must you take to get the project done effectively? This section provides a review of essential PM (project management) processes as identified in the Project Management Institute’s PMBOK (Project management Body of Knowledge).¹¹ In addition, we provide a list of essential PM actions derived from those processes from which you may select those most applicable to your project.

Project Management Processes

In Part I we identified three important whats related to the project:

•   What are the deliverables to be created?

•   What are the phases by which we will organize the project?

•   What is our overall project life cycle?

Now it’s time ...