Project Management Phases

Table of Contents

• Initiation
• Planning
• Execution
• Monitoring and Controlling
• Closing
• Overcoming Challenges
• Team and Communication
• Personal Development
• Innovation and Creativity
• Other

Initiation

It is easy to launch a project if you have no clue about the cost and schedule.

Don’t feel guilty about what you didn’t know before; feel proud about the small step you already took by joining this great project.

If your objectives are too broad, they can dilute your project.

In many ways it’s like a home improvement project: You don’t know what you’re getting into. You uncover problems you didn’t know you had. You have to make multiple calls to your friend, the Carpenter, for help. And it usually takes longer than you think it will take.

We're going to be challenged by this, as we are in many other projects we've done in the past.

At the Zayed Summit, His Majesty urged executing this project in the shortest period of time and providing all essential tools needed for its execution.

Having a project to move on to together definitely makes this process easier. We've been dreaming of doing this for quite some time.

get it done ahead of time and then request new assignments or projects.

Is it a perfect project? Show me one that is. Is it expensive? You bet, but sometimes doing the right thing involves sacrifice.

If you have a school project I suggest you get it done because you will be back to school on Monday.

We are placing the project on a fast track,

This first project is supposed to spark others. If we get any indication that it's not going to do that, I think we'd have to go back to the drawing board.

This has been in the back of my mind for several years, but I just didn't know how to get the project done.

Planning

When your boss assigns you a project, take good notes and ask questions regarding anything you’re not sure about. … The key question to ask: “What are the results you’re looking for?” Be clear, too, about deadlines and who needs to be looped in on the project.

The lesson we have learned in life is that it does not matter the size of the dream or idea, find small entry points that can be implemented daily, weekly, and monthly by small tasks that are integral of the entire project.

Broken down into manageable chunks, the biggest projects become easy to conquer.

If you’re an over thinker or try to anticipate every barrier-before beginning, ask yourself, “if I had to accomplish this project in three steps or less, what would they be?

That should be the focus -- getting the project done on that site.

What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?

I think a project of this scope does need to get a hard look.

Everyone did an amazing job of planning this project,

We need more details about what parts of the project still need to be done.

We'll have an idea on how to prioritize each one of these items. Taking some off the table completely, and see if there's an opportunity to add anything to the project list.

The best way to get a project done faster is to start sooner.

That sounds really interesting. I’m working on A, B, and C right now. Which should I set aside in order to focus on this project?

The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after.

Execution

There is no summarized list of steps for development. There is no roadmap; open your mind.

Project stacking is the art of creating projects that multi-task for you, so you don’t have to.

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it "done.

I was done with everything but the project when I was about 14 years old. I just didn't get around to finishing up until this project came along.

Small projects need much more help than great.

You don't have time to do any project, because you actually can't do a project - you can only take action steps.

We figure out how to attack projects. What's the best way to build something? What's the best timing?

This project is an exciting opportunity for us. Our ability to self perform much of the work is key to meeting this very challenging schedule.

This project will get finished, one way or another.

When you take on a project, you have to be certain that you can make the best version of whatever it is youre given.

I am in constant search for that project that speaks to me personally. And when all the pieces come together properly, it'll happen.

It's a very basic studio setup, so we don't attempt to do very elaborate projects. Everything (including the press) packs up into a closet so it is out of the weather and out of John's way when he is there.

By signing up for the project you agreed to do whatever was necessary for success.

Monitoring and Controlling

I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.

As we told you before, with this project, we were constantly challenged to take this project and make it the best we can.

We ran into problems getting the drawings and permitting together. A lot of the people involved with the project had so much work on their hands, on top of this.

The project is just over 60 percent complete at the moment.

We have a very, very precise project which is related to no waste after the games.

The destruction was so great that it would be almost impossible to complete the project without help from a company that does this kind of work.

It's kind of a rule of thumb for me to self-doubt going into any kind of project. I always think that I shouldn't be doing it and I don't know how to do it and I'm going to fail and that I fooled them. I always try to find a way out.

After I helped on P4 mixing and saw how things were being done I offered to take care of Project 3, and on it went from there. Plus I'm way cheap.

The scale and the scope of the project is such that it requires a lot of different skill levels from a variety of people to make it work. Better for us to take the time and do it right than to speed into anything.

I don't take on a project unless I know the end result is going to make me happy. If I can't give 100 percent to something, I choose not to do it because it's very difficult to have so many pots on the fire at one time.

This doesn't deter us from doing a project. We have to go back and make sure everything is valued properly.

You don’t actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it “done.” The list of projects is the compilation of finish lines we put before us, to keep our next actions moving on all tracks appropriately.

I face every project the same way – do it right and give 110%. 100% isn’t good enough.

Closing

Select it, project it, expect it, collect it!

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project

You can complete a project by dropping it.

It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.

I'm not interested at all, ... The project is probably dead.

Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.

This is just one other thing that has to be done to complete this project.

I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another.

I face every project the same way - do it right and give 110%. 100% isn't good enough.

If I’d known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can’t remember a single project I would have started.

Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project.

Overcoming Challenges

With any project there's one or two things that you really want to do and that's going to crack it.

It takes a lot to put a big project like this together.

committed to putting whatever resources are necessary towards completing this project.

When you're working on a project, make sure at least one person knows what they are doing.

It's a pretty intuitive process, picking the projects that I want to get involved with.

I put projects together. I put people together.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

We go through phases. So far we don't have anything complete except for portions of projects.

If I'd known how many problems I was going to run into before I finished, I can't remember a single project I would have started.

It certainly is one of the most difficult projects we have done,

Sometimes you have to step out and spend some money to win a project.

You don’t actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.

Whenever you begin to feel overwhelmed by the large, grand project that looms before you, remind yourself, “I can take one small step. One small step; one rough, rough draft; one imperfect sketch; one small hello. That’s all I need to do now.

Team and Communication

Small projects need much more help than great ones.

These projects are going on very well, I think you just need to extend it, keep serving for more people,

This is an important step forward for the entire project,

We had been talking about doing more projects together.

It seems to me we've been doing this project since before I was on the board.

There's a project to be done all the time. Patience has been important.

In RUP, we have an enormous amount of advice depending on the type of project you're doing.

You appear to have a good project... we wish you well in this endeavor.

There's actually now a well-established procedure for every project.

We have no problem with this project because both Helge Schneider and Dani Levy are capable of approaching this work with the necessary sensitivity.

But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.

It’s really a drag to do the same project over and over again.

When you’re working on a project, make sure at least one person knows what they are doing.

Personal Development

IF you want to be a winner than follow one simple rule and feed it in your mind. Take each task and work as " Do it yourself project.

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.

We had been working on the project for several months, but it all came to fruition in about a week.

There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don't get done because they're not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.

Don't wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

We have a number of steps we have to go to even decide if we have a project.

How to manage a project: Limit it in scope. Make it simple. Get success. Then iterate.

There’s always a project around, but you have to pick and choose.

Don’t make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I’d devised.

In his book Getting Things Done, David Allen shares a crucial insight: “You can’t do a project. You can only do the next step.

The best project you’ll ever work on is you.

I will always look to approach every project like it's my first.

Innovation and Creativity

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised.

Taken is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.

It turned out to be the right project.

I wish I could just project everything on the paper,

Years ago, you'd come in with 400 pounds' worth of blueprints for the whole project. Now you can phase it.

To be honest, I just went brain dead. I was not asked to talk about projects, and I was not prepared.

You don’t actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it “done.

There are dozens of unfinished or aborted projects in my files, but I can only assume they don’t get done because they’re not robust enough to struggle through the birth process.

Replace “This project is so big and important” with “I can take one small step.

Building a project should be a single trivial operation.

When you have a project, do it exactly as you see fit; then fit the facts around the event, not the other way around.

Get an agent. Seriously, submitting stuff unagented means it will end up on the slush pile. An agent is the first quality filter, and a good agent is worth his or her weight in gold, as they’ll often know the editors on a personal level and will be able to talk to them directly about the project.

Don’t wait for someone to green light your project, build your own intersection.

Other

I am in constant search for that project that speaks to me personally. And when all the pieces come together properly, it’ll happen.

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