Comments on: What is Project Management Methodology ? http://www.adaptaproject.com/blog/project-management-life-cycle/what-is-project-management-methodology Thu, 02 Dec 2010 04:00:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: justaguy http://www.adaptaproject.com/blog/project-management-life-cycle/what-is-project-management-methodology/comment-page-1#comment-683 justaguy Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:53:59 +0000 http://www.adaptaproject.com/blog/project-management-life-cycle/what-is-project-management-methodology#comment-683 Academically, you are going to struggle to find a clean definition for this. The reason is that the concept of a project management methodology assumes to first know what the definition of project management is, and also the definition of a methodology. When we combine the two, the definition should read: a PM Methodology is an approach, supported by tools, methods and techniques, to deliver projects with. The lifecycle questions you have is a specialist arena within project management. In theory, there are only 3 main gates/stages/phases of a project. These are - Plan, Build, Deliver. Within these 3 lifecycle phases, one may add further phases such as Initiate, Execute, Conclude, Terminate and so forth. If a project is only supposed to Build a product, one should still remember that these 3 phases (Plan, Build, and Deliver) would, nearly always, be included as elementary lifecycle phases within a pure "Build" context. I hope you can see the complex and fractal nature of projects in this lifecycle view. A project management methodology is supposed to help the effective management of lifecycle(s), but it rarely does.<br><b>References : </b><br> Academically, you are going to struggle to find a clean definition for this. The reason is that the concept of a project management methodology assumes to first know what the definition of project management is, and also the definition of a methodology. When we combine the two, the definition should read: a PM Methodology is an approach, supported by tools, methods and techniques, to deliver projects with.

The lifecycle questions you have is a specialist arena within project management. In theory, there are only 3 main gates/stages/phases of a project. These are – Plan, Build, Deliver. Within these 3 lifecycle phases, one may add further phases such as Initiate, Execute, Conclude, Terminate and so forth. If a project is only supposed to Build a product, one should still remember that these 3 phases (Plan, Build, and Deliver) would, nearly always, be included as elementary lifecycle phases within a pure "Build" context.

I hope you can see the complex and fractal nature of projects in this lifecycle view.

A project management methodology is supposed to help the effective management of lifecycle(s), but it rarely does.
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]]> By: Ipsydoodle http://www.adaptaproject.com/blog/project-management-life-cycle/what-is-project-management-methodology/comment-page-1#comment-681 Ipsydoodle Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:52:59 +0000 http://www.adaptaproject.com/blog/project-management-life-cycle/what-is-project-management-methodology#comment-681 I believe in this context the phrase is referring to the iterative activity of Project Management - including the methods and tools Project Managers use to discharge their duties. So, my interpretation here is 'how to conduct Project Management'<br><b>References : </b><br> I believe in this context the phrase is referring to the iterative activity of Project Management – including the methods and tools Project Managers use to discharge their duties.

So, my interpretation here is ‘how to conduct Project Management’
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