Elements and Performance Criteria
- Define project scope.
- Identify project objectives, budget, scope of activities and deliverables.
- Clarify relationship of project to others and to overall organisational objectives.
- Identify stakeholders and their requirements for consultation and involvement in project activities.
- Confirm administrative structure for project management, individual responsibility and reporting hierarchy.
- Determine required resources for the project.
- Prepare the project plan.
- Consult with stakeholders to facilitate input and to achieve approval for project plan.
- Determine risk, and regulatory and sustainability issues and incorporate them into plan.
- Integrate quality, financial, human and physical resource specifications for project activities.
- Develop and integrate project evaluation methods.
- Plan internal and external communications, public relations and marketing approaches.
- Document integrated project management plan and gain required approvals.
- Communicate plan and roles and responsibilities to all involved.
- Administer and monitor the project.
- Implement project activities according to plan and in conjunction with stakeholders and project team members, providing support and assistance as required.
- Implement financial and quality control systems according to project plan.
- Monitor progress to ensure objectives, deliverables, timelines, cost and quality of project are achieved.
- Identify deviations from plan, assess and take action to realign project activities to meet objectives.
- Determine and act on the need for project variations, including additional project resources.
- Provide progress and final reports according to project requirements.
- Complete project within agreed timelines.
- Provide effective and documented handover instructions and advice to staff responsible for the ongoing implementation or maintenance of project products or services.
- Evaluate the project.
- Assess project effectiveness at specified stages, using agreed evaluation methods.
- Evaluate completed project for administrative efficiency, quality and achievement of objectives.
- Debrief project team members and relevant stakeholders about project implementation and outcomes.
- Report outcomes to stakeholders and use information to enhance future project planning and management activities.