Project Management Essentials For Dummies, Australian and New Zealand Edition

first 90 per cent of the activity takes 90 per cent of the time, and the last 10 per cent of the activity also takes 90 per cent of the time

deliberately creating a bottleneck.

Work Flow Diagram

Don’t stamp unless you really, really need to and all else has failed

Some Project Managers use the MoSCoW approach to help with prioritising

The scope, then, is the ‘What?’ and the Business Case is the justification, the ‘Why?’

The Business Case lists the business benefits of running the project

Progress status reports: A number of people, both inside and outside the project, need to be kept up to date on the project’s progress.

Towards the end of each delivery stage, you need to do the more detailed planning for the following stage and, each time, update the Project Charter as necessary.

plans are maintained throughout the project