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Project integration management
Integrated management is to consider how to manage a project as a whole, which specifically includes formulating a project charter, formulating a project management plan, guiding and managing project work, monitoring project work, implementing overall project change control, and ending the project or phase. Each aspect has corresponding inputs and outputs, and specific tools and techniques are used for management.
Develop project charter
As a formal authorization document, the project charter is generally prepared by the sponsor, and the project manager is formally appointed to use the resources of the organization to implement the project. The
project charter as the programmatic document of the project is also an input for subsequent management activities
Job description
Statement of Work sow is divided into internal or external. The internal is usually called product planning, which is drafted by the product manager and passed after the approval of the company leader. The external is generally called the bidding document. The specific requirements are clearly defined in the bidding document and roughly divided into Project background, demand description, construction period requirements, budget, etc.
Business case
Generally, whether a project can be approved requires demonstration and the source of the demand
- Market demand
- Organization needs
- Customer request
- skill improved
- Legal requirements
- Ecological impact
- Social needs
Business environment factors
- Government standards, industry standards or regulations (such as professional codes, quality standards or worker protection regulations)
- Organizational culture and structure
- Market conditions
Organizational process assets
- Organization’s standard processes, policies and process definitions
- Template (such as project charter template)
- Knowledge base of historical information and lessons learned (such as project records and documents, complete project closing information and documents, information about
the results of past project selection decisions and past project performance, and information generated during risk management activities)
What the project charter contains
- Project purpose or reason for approving the project
- Measurable project goals and related success criteria
- High-level needs
- Assumptions and constraints
- High-level project description and boundary definition
- High-level risk
- Overall milestone schedule
- Overall budget
- Stakeholder list
- Project approval requirements (such as what criteria are used to evaluate the success of the project, who will draw the conclusion on the success of the project, and who will sign
the end of the project) - Assigned project managers and their rights and responsibilities
- The name and authority of the sponsor or other person who approves the project charter,
although theoretically the sponsor formulates the project charter, in practice most of the work is done by the project manager, especially the budget, which is generally carried out by the project manager first The evaluation is then formally approved by the company’s leaders. After approval, the budget is also an important starting point for the leadership management project. The other is the milestone plan. The milestones of pure soft projects generally include requirements review, design review, system online review, initial inspection, Several stages such as final inspection. The achievement of milestones is also an important indicator for the company to evaluate project management.