Everyday Project Management

In large organisations, a project generally doesn't get onto the drawing board until the person proposing it has clearly defined what the project is about, and identified the desired outcomes the project must deliver within defined cost and time constraints.

imply due to a lack of detail or a failure to provide a clear description of the desired outcomes.

our essential task as project manager, at this point, is to determine dependencies; that is, activities that can't be started until others have been completed.

list of activities into a logical sequence based on your experience.

Backing up your files to a cloud service, like Dropbox, or to an external drive mitigates the risk of losing all your work.

OK, let's see what that might look like.

Summing up estimates, it will take about 75 working hours, or 13 six hour days, to complete the project.

Any delay in meeting a critical date will extend the time it takes to complete the project

Summing up estimates, it will take about 12 working hours to complete this project.

The biggest challenge I've encountered with this type of project is getting the correct spelling for people's names and their current contact details.