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Project management consultants are specialized consultants that are involved in the task of identifying, defining, planning, implementing and reviewing projects for their clients. They can either advice a client on the best way to carry out a given project or undertake to carry out the entire project on behalf of the client.
These consultants help a client to go through each step of the project life cycle in the most viable and cost effective way to achieve the objectives set for a particular project. The project life cycle outlines all the steps that a project goes through from beginning to completion. The project life cycle consists of the following steps:
Project initiation
This is the first step where the project is defined in terms of scope and expected results and out come. The project can be divided into phases for ease of execution. In this stage, the tool and resources required are also identified and appointed. A thorough feasibility study is undertaken to determine the viability of the project. Risks are identified and measures for countering risk are stipulated.
Project execution
The project is then executed in the different phases. The project management consultants keep an eye on the progress on ground compared to planned progress to ensure that time lines are kept and objectives are being met. At this stage, corrective measures are under taken based on challenges encountered.
Project closure
The project closes once all the phases are implemented. The objectives set must also be fully achieved for the project to close successfully. A project review is undertaken at this stage and a detailed report is written.
Post project analysis
It is important to carry out a post project analysis to compare the actual achievements with the goals and objective one intended to achieve. In this stage, any deviations in terms of time and resources between what was planned and what actually happened are identified.
The goal of project management consultants is to ensure that the project objectives are met in the most cost effective way. It ensures that all resources are maximized and costs are minimized without compromise on the goals and objectives. The consultants will use a variety of project management tools to track progress.
The project management consultants will appoint a project manager who appoints a team that works with him from inception to completion of the project. The project manager must be a well trained and experienced leader who is able to manage the team to achieve the project objective. The team must consist of individual with the requisite skills and experience to cover all areas of the project. The team must be cohesive with members who are able to work together and understand their different roles and responsibilities.

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By the term project management we mean that it is an effort that is planned & organized carefully for accomplishing a successful-project. Project means effort of 1 time which produces particular results, e.g. building a computer-system.

Project management involves various steps for completing its work efficiently. The steps of project management which is proposed by a manger are as follows:

Preparation – 1st Step of Project Management

The focus of a project manager should be upon getting answers to the staple questions before preparing for the project. This step contains creating the questions that are related to the project & answering them for proper functioning. A person can start this step by writing project document or charter as this charter answers many significant questions such as what is the project’s purpose? It is quite natural that without having any idea about what is the project’s purpose a person will not have a well defined pathway. Apart from this, with the help of this step a budget can be made with which a project manager can focus on making maximum profit & saving-money as well as time. The project manager can even know about which person to contact relating to the completion of the project. It also an idea about the type of resources to be used and the sources from which these resources can be purchased.

Execution – 2nd Step of Project Management

After the answers are known against the staple questions, the project manger now proceeds further with the next step that is execution. It is that step which makes the hands of a person dirty. The works which were done in preparation step or grade are now materialized, so everything must be recorded by the project manager. The only benefit of recording is that the person remembers what is to be done and what has been done. The project management must note down every day that how much work has been completed and what has to be added more to it.  If any problem comes into notice or arises then he must immediately note it down in the problem column. Likewise, if any risky situation arises and one has to take that risk, then the manager should write them immediately with its occurrence so that it can be avoided in future.

So the conclusion of this step is that the project manager should write down each and every activities performed in a day and consider the problems. One has to spend a little on this step. This executing level, actually, might be a shorter or a longer process than the 1st step and its length purely depends upon the complexity of the project.

Closing – 3rd Step of Project Management

At this step the step of project management terminates i.e. closes.  This is the last step where a project manager finds out whether he has managed a sound work and also sees that whether the set goals have been achieved or not.

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SmartWatt Energy Expands National Accounts Division, Hires New Staff in Nashville, TN

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Albany, NY (PRWEB) March 13, 2012

SmartWatt Energy, Inc. is pleased to announce that Bernard Hodge has joined the company as a National Accounts Project Manager. He will be based out of SmartWatt Energys recently opened Nashville, TN office.

SmartWatt Energy is a leading provider of turnkey energy-efficiency solutions for commercial and industrial customers. In response to an increased demand for large-scale energy-efficiency upgrade projects for nationwide cold storage, food processing and distribution facilities, the company has hired additional staff.

Bernard has over 10 years of experience working in the lighting industry, most recently as a Project Manager for Lumatech Services. As Project Manager, he was responsible for managing all phases of lighting installation projects for the companys regional and national accounts, including working closely with clients and colleagues to maintain project budgets and schedules. Prior to this, he was Director of Business Operations for Unalite Electrical and Lighting, a Senior Project Manager for SMS/Advanced Power Technologies and a Field Service Coordinator for Universal Lighting Technologies. Bernard graduated from the University of Tennessee with a Bachelors Degree in Health Sciences and minor in Business Administration.

As National Accounts Project Manager, Bernard will be working with SmartWatt Energys National Accounts team. He will be responsible for networking and further developing the companys national client-base and will be the main point of contact for customers throughout all stages of energy-efficiency upgrade projects.

Were seeing tremendous growth in our National Accounts Division due to large-scale rollouts for existing customers, said Nick Lashinsky, SmartWatt Energys National Accounts Project Executive. Bernards extensive experience and proven successes will make him a great addition to our National Accounts team and will aid in further expanding our national accounts customer-base.

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The Third Phase of the Project Life Cycle

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The third phase of the cycle involves addressing the most important aspects of the project that include project control, communication, and project execution. Known as the execution phase of the project, the clearly laid out and elaborate solutions that are designed as a part of the project life cycle are implemented to solve problems per the project’s specified requirements. During this phase, the underlying plan of the project is set to motion and the overall progress of the work is closely monitored to make appropriate adjustments and record associated variations from the original plan. In project layouts for the development of products and systems, a design that incorporates all the essential elements and product requirements is created through testing, reviews, and analyzing prototypes. With the progression of the execution phase, various groups of the target organization get more deeply involved in the final phase of the project that includes production, product testing, and support.

Some of the most common methodologies and tools that are used during this phase involve Milestones Reviews, further additions to the Business Plan, Risk Analysis, and Score Cards updates. The project manager spends the maximum amount of time on this step as status reports on the progress of the project and task execution are discussed during regular team meetings. This information is used by them to measure and track the performance of all the project-related activities and take immediate corrective action if required. The sponsors of the project and key stakeholders should always be aware of the status of the project as well as the other parameters like the costs incurred, the schedule as well as the quality of the deliverables to ensure that they meet the set acceptance criteria per the agreed upon format and frequency. After this, the project is all set for closure.

This article is part of a series of articles that give discussion to the Project life cycle. You can view the rest of the articles in e-projectmanagers.com. This is published under the July newsletter while other Project life cycle articles were published in the earlier editions. This is an ongoing series of articles that aims to wholly define the processes of the project life cycle.

This article was written by Soumya Nalam for E-project managers. You can view her profile in the Newsletters as well. She has authored 4 articles for e project managers, all of which are incorporated in the Newsletter issues.

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This article is part of the June Newsletter of e-projectmanagers.com, accessible through http://www.e-projectmanagers.com/June-2011-Newsletter/View-issue.html.

Dora Tarver is the founder of e-ProjectManagers.com and CreateAndManageSchedules.com and is available to provide consulting services globally.

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Problems Observed in Project Management

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At the Proposal Project stage the Project Managers are given the task of ascertaining the cost and the plans for accepting a proposal and they are often known as Proposal Managers. And when the project is won either they have very limited or no authority in managing or working out even the basic framework in achieving the desired goal. The project execution usually doesn’t fail due to technical glitches but due to lack of expertise of the people working on it.

The main reasons behind the failure of a project is poor leadership, poor or lack of teamwork, unclear roles and expectations, no encouragement, conflicting priorities etc. By meeting and understanding the various types of people and engaging them according to their potential the hurdle of management problem can be resolved and a project manager should have this quality.

These days more importance is given to understand employee’s personality and its behavior at work because individual employee’s character can become conflicting to one another many a times which can delay in achieving the desired goal. Most teams should work together and their collective efforts and collaborative steps help in the execution of any project in any organization and at any work place. By understanding the individual’s weaknesses and strengths in a team work the influence on the success of achieving the goals of an organization becomes very high.

We should stop dreaming of having a perfect and a faultless project team in an organization. I had the opportunity in the past to handle many projects and the main drawback I have experienced is that the project teams are always assembled and designed at the project proposal research stage. Though my interference was very limited for replacing with the ones who were no more accessible for the projects but I still believe by building a project team and working together the common goal of the organization can be achieved with very less difficulty.

Many a times or at many instances it was observed that more friction is experienced between the line management and the project management rather than forecasting the sources for a project completion. Starting resource necessities has the advantage of saving time if prepared well in advance and helps in execution of the project well in time. But many a times there are unforeseen circumstances during the project implementation and changes made in the projects resource necessities can give you an unexpected surprise.

If the line management is clearly specified and informed about the resource requirements by the project managers it is very unlikely to develop any confusion or conflict in achieving the desired target. The functional management should also be informed side by side of any changes taking place. At the beginning of the project a detailed manpower loading diagram and resource recruitment plan should well be prepared and any updates should be clearly mentioned in it during the project execution.

When there are multiple projects for execution in a company conflicts or differences of interests are for sure cannot be avoided entirely especially when a new project preparation proposal pops out in between. It is necessary for the project manager to keep informed the functional management and define its team members the relieving date when the project is near completion. The team manager or the project manager cannot retain its team members on a weekly basis or ‘Just in Case’ manner.

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Having Project Management Problems?

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At the Proposal Project stage the Project Managers are given the task of ascertaining the cost and the plans for accepting a proposal and they are often known as Proposal Managers. And when the project is won either they have very limited or no authority in managing or working out even the basic framework in achieving the desired goal. The project execution usually doesn’t fail due to technical glitches but due to lack of expertise of the people working on it.

The main reasons behind the failure of a project is poor leadership, poor or lack of teamwork, unclear roles and expectations, no encouragement, conflicting priorities etc. By meeting and understanding the various types of people and engaging them according to their potential the hurdle of management problem can be resolved and a project manager should have this quality.

These days more importance is given to understand employee’s personality and its behavior at work because individual employee’s character can become conflicting to one another many a times which can delay in achieving the desired goal. Most teams should work together and their collective efforts and collaborative steps help in the execution of any project in any organization and at any work place. By understanding the individual’s weaknesses and strengths in a team work the influence on the success of achieving the goals of an organization becomes very high.

We should stop dreaming of having a perfect and a faultless project team in an organization. I had the opportunity in the past to handle many projects and the main drawback I have experienced is that the project teams are always assembled and designed at the project proposal research stage. Though my interference was very limited for replacing with the ones who were no more accessible for the projects but I still believe by building a project team and working together the common goal of the organization can be achieved with very less difficulty.

Many a times or at many instances it was observed that more friction is experienced between the line management and the project management rather than forecasting the sources for a project completion. Starting resource necessities has the advantage of saving time if prepared well in advance and helps in execution of the project well in time. But many a times there are unforeseen circumstances during the project implementation and changes made in the projects resource necessities can give you an unexpected surprise.

If the line management is clearly specified and informed about the resource requirements by the project managers it is very unlikely to develop any confusion or conflict in achieving the desired target. The functional management should also be informed side by side of any changes taking place. At the beginning of the project a detailed manpower loading diagram and resource recruitment plan should well be prepared and any updates should be clearly mentioned in it during the project execution.

When there are multiple projects for execution in a company conflicts or differences of interests are for sure cannot be avoided entirely especially when a new project preparation proposal pops out in between. It is necessary for the project manager to keep informed the functional management and define its team members the relieving date when the project is near completion. The team manager or the project manager cannot retain its team members on a weekly basis or ‘Just in Case’ manner.

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