Project Office Information

As an initiative to help improve project management practices, the project office can play an invaluable role in generating and maintaining information about projects. Whether this information is kept manually or electronically depends upon the preferences of the people setting it up as well as the resources that are available. Nevertheless, the project office should, at a minimum, keep a record of each project and who was assigned to manage it. The project duration, effort, start and end dates, and budget should also be included. For completed projects, the information should also include the actual completion date and effort.

However, there is no merit in gathering information unless there is some use for it. Given ...

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