Project Management Steps 

This happens to everyone. At some stage or another we all get caught up in the corporate jargon that sounds great, but really has little effect. You know what we mean. Sayings like, ‘let’s fly it up the flagpole and see how it flutters’, or ‘let’s touch base with a quick coffee’. One often wonders how on earth work gets done in the midst of all this talk. No where else is the kind of talk more prevalent than in the world of project management. The Luc Chaudhary method is aimed specifically at reducing the talk and delivering results – quickly. Our approach to project management is nothing out of the ordinary. Our aim has never been to reinvent the wheel, but to rather be the best wheel producer. So how do we go about this?   

Our approach basically consists of three mane phases. These are: 

Project Initiation 

Any good consultant needs to spend a good amount of his or her time on this part of the project. If you don’t know the scope of a project, you simply don’t know the project. The kind of things which we pay attention to here includes determining the budgetary requirements, how we intend to organize our activities with the business owners and setting schedules which will serve as markers to measure success.  

Project Control  

The initiation phase is very important, but this work will be completely wasted if you don’t pay close attention to controlling the project in all its facets. This can sometimes be a complex and time-consuming exercise, but very much worth the effort. We play especially some close attention to subject areas such as managing issues that arise from the work, having a close control on the quality and progress and determining if there are any exceptional issues.  

Project Closure 

Your whole process can be perfect, but if you mess up your end game the whole project is likely to completely fall flat on its face. This is a sobering thought. One thing your consultant should not do is just spend a 2% of their time on this phase. The work is complete, they’re almost done and right at the end the wheels go off! Care must be taken to ensure this doesn’t happen. This is why any good business analyst should take care of issues such as final product evaluation and seeing if there are any areas which can be improved before handover takes place to the managers that will be running with it.  

The area of project management is so large it could be considered as a field of study all on its own. These three areas of a project management process is the broad categories we use at Luc Chaudhary Consulting in evaluating our work.