From the course: Project Management Foundations
Kicking off and managing project work
- Finally, planning is done and the project is underway. Now all the work you did in planning comes into play as you push your project to completion. Executing a project starts with lining up the people and other resources you need to perform the work. Once team members are on board, they need to know their assignments, who they're working with, and how the project's going to go. That's what a kickoff meeting is for. The project sponsor and customer can describe the mission and get everybody jazzed about the project. You can review the project plan and explain how things will work, like communicating or handling change requests. You also set up a place to store project information, like your project plan, specifications, documents, and reports. It's called a project notebook. But these days it's usually electronic. Lots of people need access to these files so be sure to set your project notebook up where team members can get to it. After that, project execution represents performing all the work you identified in the work breakdown structure. Monitoring and controlling your project kick in at the same time as executing. Monitoring means collecting data about where the project stands. Since projects never stick to the plans you so carefully prepare, you have to figure out how to respond to the changes and surprises and problems that arise. Controlling is about correcting course to get your project back on track. In this chapter, I'll talk about what goes on during the executing phase.
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