Assignment:
In the textbook Successful Project Management ,Jack, Gido and James Clements, 6th ed, can someone help me to do an article review?
It should contain
1.course relevance
2.Reason
3.article summation
4.Questions inspired by this article
5.Reference
Example:
Course Relevance:
Reason: This article gives the brief explanation on how poor project planning produce potential problems.
Article Summation:
A project doesn't mean an individual's work. It involves many stakeholders and a larger pool of resources. It can include external vendors, several other internal and intra-departmental team members as well as their schedules and input, additional parameters like cost, quality, timing, constant coordination, communication and associated risks.
For every successful project, planning is must and should. Planning generally involves clearly defining the project, divide and subdivide, defining specific activities, portray the activities, determine the resources, planning time estimate, cost estimate, project schedule, budget, baseline plan and so on.
But considering the negative side, when there is a poor project plan the issues to be faced:
Lack of strategic alignment. benefits and risks associated with project management and the need to consider an enterprise project management office (EPMO) to ensure projects are consistently aligned with business objectives
Cost, quality and time constraint issues and scope creep. Determining the scope of a project is difficult without spending a considerable amount of upfront time properly planning. Gathering requirements, developing comprehensive project management plans, and determining and scheduling activities among other things, require considerable thought, coordination and yes, a lot of time
Inefficient use of resources. Estimating costs and activity levels, scheduling resources, and continually monitoring and adjusting them requires intense planning to ensure a project is moving in the right direction. Effective planning identifies the tools and techniques required to accomplish these tasks and reduces the risk of having unclear roles and responsibilities.
Communication Issues.
It takes considerable thought and careful planning to ensure communication plans take into account stakeholders needs; without these there is potential for communication barriers which can translate into reduced confidence and jeopardize buy-in from team members and stakeholders.
Increased Risk. Identifying risks and performing qualitative and quantitative risk analysis and developing risk management strategies are key to successful project outcomes. These activities can require a lot of time and considerable coordination to complete because they can range from simple to sophisticated and complex depending on project, scope, size, and a range of other factors.
Project planning is not a guarantee that projects will go according to plans. The key to having great project outcomes is to first recognize from the project's inception why careful project planning is a critical component to reducing risks and increasing success. It may seem more time consuming up front, but will save substantial undue stress, time and costly rework later.
Questions inspired by article: What are the major problems to be faced when there is a poor project plan? How to overcome?
What are to be noted when planning a project?