Introduction to Project Management

This page provides an easy-to-understand guide on successful management of projects.


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7.3 Knowledge Transfer: Making Lessons Survive

Where a project's knowledge really lives, which parts are worth moving before the team disperses, how to make them findable, and the habit that makes it all pay off.

7.0 Project Closure: Ending Projects Properly

Why the last two days of a project decide what the organisation keeps, the symptoms of thin closure months later, and how much closure a project of each size needs.

6.2 Issue and Change Management in Projects

Risk vs issue vs change, how to work an issue to closure, the four places a change request actually goes, the four-line change note, and when re-baselining is honest.

4.1 Building a Project Team: Roles and Cover

How to staff a project for coverage rather than headcount, give every deliverable one accountable owner, and work with a group that hasn't worked together before.

4.0 Project Team Management: A Practical Guide

Why most project failures are coordination failures, the three things that need managing — team, stakeholders, communication — and the symptoms when each is thin.