PPMP20009 Leading Lean Projects

Development of Project methodology is critical for any organisation to have competitive advantage and success history. It is equally important for smaller and larger organisation to have a sound planning of their project methodologies and assessment of the same to avoid dilemma in their adopting a standard methodology and understand the critical aspect of the same.

However, in this technique, the interrelationship between the activities and mutual dependence are reflected. In addition, the researchers argued that CPM is the best technique which can ensure disciplined planning and control aspects of the projects. Moreover, the management can keep a track on the activities and observe the progress of the report (Jensen Oellgaard, 2013). The critical activities in the job roles are also considered in this technique by focusing on the long range planning. Structure analysis and Time analysis are the two important parts of Critical Path Method.

The following presentation analyzes the phases of lifecycle for the domain of the project. It has considered the procedures and policies, client requirements, tools to share the knowledge and acquire lessons learnt during the project domains.

1. Critical analysis of strategies for continuous professional development:

The key features of the process of CPD or Continuous Professional Development. For justifying the name, the CPD requires to be the following:

• Be the documented procedure
• It must be self-directed. It must be the company, not the employer

1.1. Purpose of CPD:

It has been helpful in the following ways.

• It has been providing the overview if the professional development to date.
• It has been reminding the achievements and the way it has been progressing.
• It has been directing the career and helping to keep the eye on the goals.
• It has been uncovering the gaps of the capabilities and skills.
• It has been opening up the following necessities of development.
• It has been providing the instances and scenarios for the interview.
• It has been demonstrating the professional standing to the employees and clients
• It has been helping in the development of career for the possible change in the career.

2.1. The project management practices:

1. Panning:

This includes the planning to work through using the document of project definition. As approved by the client and the stakeholders it turns out to be the basis of the tasks to be done.

 2: Create a planning horizon:

After defining of the project is complete, the work plan is needed to create. The wok plan is needed to deliver by step-by-step instructions to construct the project deliverables and manage the project.

3: Defining project management procedures up front:

The procedures of project management have been outlining the resources used to manage the project (Degenhardt 2015). It has been incorporating the sections on the way the team has been managing the scope change, issues, risk, quality, communication and many more.

4: Managing the work-plan and monitor the schedule and budget:

As the project is planned enough, the execution of the task starts. Here the challenge is to possess the discipline and rigor required to apply the project management techniques proactively and correctly (Bell 2014).

5: Looking for warning signs:

This includes the small variances in the budget or schedule, discovering the activities, relying on the unscheduled overtime, delivering the service or quality and so on.

6: Ensuring that the sponsor approves scope-change requests:

Various project failures are caused by the challenges with estimating or the team skill sets. Hence ensuring that the sponsor approves scope-change requests is needed (O'Donnell and Evers 2017).

7: Guarding against the scope creep:

The project managers should know to invoke the scope-change management procedures as they are asked to ass the major latest functions or the major latest deliverable to the projects.

8: Identify risks up front:

As the planning of the work has been taking place, the project team is needed to recognize every known risk (MBA Skool-Study.Learn.Share., 2017). Regarding every risk they must found out the possibility that the risk event should take place and the potential effect on the project.

9: Continue to analyze the potential risks across the project:

As the project starts, a periodic performance of the updates risk analysis is to be done to find whether the other risks are surfaced that has been required to get managed.  

10: Resolving the issues as quickly as possible:

Issues like exchange migration has been huge problems. The exchange servers ordered might not be ready or to be configured on time (Fayard et al. 2014). Moreover, the Windows forest has not been correctly set up. It might need to be get redesigned.

2.2. Project Management Frameworks:

The project managers need to choose the framework that has been working best for the project or project under the business. The organizations have been often leveraging various frameworks. This has been specific to the departmental unit or the type of the project (De Massis et al. 2015).

The PRINCE2:

The PRINCE2 has been focusing in the defining and delivering the products that have been precisely meeting the requirements. It has been less concentrating on dividing the activities. It has been rather that on producing the products. Its markedly has differing from the Agile as such (Silvius 2013). For instance, PRINCE2 has been largely concerned with the stage of planning if the members of the project-team conducing on defining the product necessities upfront. This is to restrict the change down the line.

Some of the PRINCE2 standards:

 Critical analysis of the project management outputs within the life cycle as reflected in different project domains:

The sum total of the deliverables and the other unique post project outlines has been stated by the project management as the term output. One of the interesting components if the ideal concept of the output has been it has been coming from the result of the input to the success process (Matos and Lopes 2013). The outputs could he having different format like written long report format or in short format or the verbal means., it could be any formalized kind of material it could be  in inform or in few situations the information of the discretionary only (Matos and Lopes 2013).  Demonstration of a thorough knowledge and application of relevant project management principles, concepts, methods and theories as reflected in different project domains:

5.1. Project management principles:

Conclusion:

Thus the report has been helpful in identifying the strategies for the professional development. This helps in ensuring which staffs are to be trained in the suggested mechanism and methodology. It has also recommended the most effective project management practices, frameworks and the standards. On the basis of the above assessment the responsibilities for the s6taffs are needed to be allocated. Lastly it has discussed the ways to control the outputs for the industries or domains that the project has been involved in.