Lesson 1: Project Initiation
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- Oct 10, 2020
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Updated: Oct 23, 2020
A project is a venture with a beginning and an end conducted by people in order to meet, establish goals (Economic, social, political) within parameters of cost schedule and quality.
There are many characteristics that all project share in common:
All projects are unique
They have goals that need to be achieved
They require resources that can be material, people, etc
They have budgets
Have Schedules
Require the efforts of people
Have risks
The measures of quality is applied to deliverables
The project life cycle: They define the start and the end of a project and divide it into 5 different phases, each with its own work needs.
Initiation: Initial discussions and meetings, timelines
Planning: Detailed planning of the project so it runs smoothly
Executing: We implement the planning into place
Controlling: Making sure that we are executing according to the project and changing it the things change.
Closing: The client is happy and we get paid.
There are 2 different types of the project life cycle that document the progress of the project and are essential tools to ensure completion
- Type S: Slow initiation with a lot of planning and discussion but then it starts progressing very rapidly.
- Tipe J: After 90 % of the time passed the project has advanced about 60 %.
Characteristics of project initiation:
Selecting the project
Defining the scope
Identifying the risks
The arrival of a mutual understanding of deliverables
Preparing the team
Define communication mechanisms
Documenting the project
Agreeing sign off points with client or sponsors
Hi Gregory,
Nice blog you have here. I enjoyed your introductory post as it is the next best thing to meeting you in person (I'm Anthony, by the way...)
Your Project Initiation post covers everything discussed in the videos. As Robbie mentioned, more pictures and elaboration in future posts are always good.
You're welcome to come over and critique my blog when you have the time.
-Anthony
Hi Gregory, i really like the look and feel of your blog. Your introduction and overview first blog post was nice and personal and clearly stated what the blog would be used for.
Your Lesson 1 blog on project initiation had a good introduction and short overview of the topic, however it was a bit short. I am recommending 300 words per blog post as a guide, and try and use any images or other media to help get your points across.
Thanks Gregory and hopefully you and the other students can start commenting on each others blog posts as this will be required as part of the assessment.
Cheers
Robbie