Integrated Project Management

Summary

A successful project requires a specification and a plan. The task list is the beginning of the plan. The core of a project plan describes the task sequence needed to complete the project, the task's timing, and the people and other resources needed for each task. The Gantt chart has been proven a very useful format for displaying a complete project plan.

There are several approaches that project managers can take when planning a project. The major difference in these approaches is whether the project manager plans the project or whether the project manager leads and facilitates the workers, who will execute the tasks, in creating the plan. The IPM approach opts for the participation of each task leader when creating the project's plan. ...