Do you get your projects delivered on time and within budget? Do you have a clear picture of the complete project portfolio?

The more complex the business implementation, the more important it becomes to use professional project management. Project management consists of tools that help the project team to balance the timetable, budget and scope of the project. Company management uses project governance to make sure the priorities of the organization are reflected in the resourcing and other decisions about the project.

How good is your project management?

Whatever your strategic ambitions are, you need to get your plans done. The more complex the business implementation, the more you need professional project management to succeed. You can now easily assess your project management – click below.

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Project managers collect all the necessary high-level aspects of a project to a project plan. When an organization approves the project plan, everyone gets the same understanding of the project objectives and how they will be reached.

Large projects require more planning than small ones. Even if agile development methods are used, there needs to be a basic definition of the project. This is a basic structure of a project plan:

Executive Summary

Project Scope
Objectives
Inclusions and Exclusions
Deliverables and Definition of Done
Work Breakdown Structure
Hand-over Requirements
Terminology

Project Timetable
Time Constraints
Decision Points
Gantt Chart
Critical Path
Dependencies

Project Budget
Cash Flow
Net Present Value and Pay-Back Time
Capital Expenditure
Other Resources
Accounting Principles

Project Risk Management
Legal Requirements
Risk Assessment
Risk Mitigation

Communications
Communications Objectives
Stakeholders
Communications Plan

Project Governance
Project Organization
Steering Group
Other Stakeholders
RACI Chart
Reporting and KPIs