Project Lifecycle

SIS can help with part or all of the Project Management Lifecycle. We can setup any of the following processes, review your setup, and train your staff. Or we can do it all for you.

Project Lifecycle

Setup Your Project and Create Your Plan
- Define the project.
  - Define objectives, assumptions, and constraints
  - Gather all documents supporting your project
- Plan the project's activities (keep it broad at this point)
  - Define phases, milestones, and task
  - Define responsibilities of project's activities
  - Estimate the activities' duration
  - Define the logic and create relationships of each activity
  - Setup coding based on physical locations, phases, and responsibility
- Plan and procure resources
  - Create estimates, and identify requirements
  - Start staffing and procurement process taking into consideration all lead time requirements
- Schedule refinement
  - Add the details to the schedule with activity lengths of 2 - 3 weeks
  - Create layouts, filters and reports
  - Resource load the project
  - Setup data collection process
  - Setup updating, projecting, and reporting process of the schedule
  - Create and save a baseline schedule
  - Create a plan and file folder structure on a different computer (backed-up server) for daily/weekly schedule backups
- Create revenue curve and cost curve
  - Integrate with job cost systems
- Identify and plan risks, opportunities, and quality
- Setup communication and security methods including correspondence and file transfers
- Review and fine tune the schedule and all plans
Track and Manage Your Project
- Track Progress
  - Collect data to update the schedule (activities % complete, resources, procurement)
- Manage the schedule
  - Update the schedule
  - Analyze and identify problems
  - Track all dates and critical paths
  - Review logic- constraints, dependencies
  - Compare schedules for activities ahead or behind schedule (current to previous weeks and baseline)
  - Prepare status reports (progress, projections, and earned value)
- Manage resources
  - Track resource progress - actual versus planned
  - Balance workloads
  - Identify and resolve resources problems, risks, and opportunities
- Manage costs
  - Review cost variances and identify problems, risks, and opportunities
- Manage scope
  - Identify and adjust schedule for changes in scope
- Manage risks and opportunities
  - Identify and respond to new risks and opportunities
End of project review and analysis