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As both an active project manager and a project management instructor, people often ask me what are the essential aspects to successful project management. Whilst there were many good books written about them, I often summarize what I consider to function as the guidelines at the heart of good project management.

Determine the scope and goals

For any project to become successful you'll need to determine what the project is meant to accomplish. Suppose your boss asks you to organise a campaign to get the employees to give blood. Is the goal of this to obtain as much blood given to the local blood bank? Or, is it to improve the profile of the organization in the area area? Determining what the real purpose is can help you to find out how you begin planning and controlling the project.

The project manager also needs to determine the range of the project. Is the organisation of transport to take team to the blood bank within the scope of the task? Or, should team make their own way there? Choosing which actions are within the scope or out of scope of the project features a big effect on the number of work which needs to be done during the project.

A knowledge of who are the stakeholders is also essential if you are likely to enlist their support and know very well what each individual needs to-be sent from the project. After you have defined the scope and objectives, you'll need to get the stakeholders to review them and accept them as well as agreeing who ought to be on the list of stakeholders.

Establish the deliverables

You must establish what issues (or items) should be delivered by the end of the project, to attain the desired result from the project. If your project is an marketing

Plan for a new chocolate bar, then one of the deliverables could be the artwork for a newspaper advertisement. So, you need to decide what real things are to be shipped and document in enough detail what these things are. In the end of-the time, some body will end up doing the work to make the deliverable, so it needs to be clearly and unambiguously identified.

You will need to have the key stakeholders evaluate the work and cause them to agree that this unambiguously and precisely reflects what they expect to be delivered from the project, after you've described the deliverables. When they have decided, you can start to plan the project. Perhaps not defining the deliverables in enough detail or