Who is Managing the Project Manager

The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) identifies five phases of a project. These are Initiation, Planning, Execution, Control, and Closing. The project manager is introduced during initiation and plays many roles over the remaining phases. Successful project managers managed the triple constraints of quality, budget, and time to ensure the project stakeholders are satisfied.

Often a lot of time and money is exhausted before the stakeholders learn things are going astray. Since projects cannot afford to lose money or time it helps to have a tool to ensure the project manager is doing their job.

My article describes a tool that you can easily build or modify to make sure your own programs are running smoothly. Project Managers can use this tool as a checklist to remind them to cover all the bases.

The tool in this article describes an objective process to monitor the efforts of the project team and make midcourse corrections before major risks become serious issues.

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