A Project management guide of 25 pages only

• WHO can help cause a project, HOW and by doing WHAT
• to go ahead or not with a project ? How to make the decision ? understand and respect the phases
• preliminary projects, what could be made prior to a company project
• the actors : who are they ? what makes the difference between an “implied person” and a “stakeholder”?
• the 5 phases approach is universal. Learn how to use it
• knowledge, tests and official docs, gather as many info as you can
• commercial function central role, understand it. Its action is broader than one can think
• CHANGES vs MODIFICATIONS, watch when a change becomes a modification
• flow diagrams and lay-outs, fix and smooth them
• Quality sytem, what interest to link the project to it ?
• everything which could help in the company, whether persons or data, make a review
• linking projects together, what benefits could be drawn ?
• Quality, Risks, Costs, use “built in” methods. Don’t handle them as specific topics
• communication, avoid info overflow, develop a system with its routing and popularisation levels. Make sure that all info, but only the needed ones, are issued
• who manages a project in reality
• etc …… it is the summary of 35 years of project experience in big international Companies as well as in small ones, in which projects are permanent successes