Tools and Tips for Today's Project Manager

PHASE BREAKDOWN

If your projects are like most, they have five phases: feasibility, requirements, design, build, and implementation.

In the feasibility phase, you investigate whether your project is possible and acquire enough preliminary information on whether to continue the project. In the requirements phase, you acquire as much information as possible to complete your project and try to determine what you must fulfill before completing your project. In the design phase, you create a way to fulfill requirements and explore different approaches to meet those needs. In the build phase, you do something to meet the requirements and design, which involves constructing the output that you will deliver upon the project’s completion. In the implementation ...