Project Management Methodology: A Case Study

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Project Management Methodology

It is important when managing any project to have a methodology in place. This is for a number of reasons; one being the need to make sure that any artefact that comes from the project, whether this is a piece of software, report, or a network design has been properly tested and evaluated and if changes need to be made the methodology can be followed to carry out this operation. It is also important to use a methodology to ensure that all parts of a project follow the same structure, to ensure problems are not overlooked, as all tasks will be planned, tested and evaluated. From this, any improvements will be made.

Research was carried out into a number of project methodologies including the Waterfall Model which …show more content…

PPDIOO is a cycle methodology created by Cisco for network management. However, the six phases can be used in a number of project areas, including software development, this concurs with (Froom, Sivasubramanian, & Frahim, 2015, p.38) “use the six PPDIOO phases as a model or framework; it is not necessary to use it exclusively as …show more content…

For example, introducing new hardware into a network must not cause downtime to the rest of the network during operating hours. Once the project has been implemented the cycle moves on to the operation phase, which can also be known as the testing phase. This is where you monitor your project implementation to ensure it is working as was intended in the project plan, this provides the necessary information needed to complete a test plan and begin the optimisation phase.

The final phase of the PPDIOO methodology is the optimisation phase. This involves monitoring your project implementation and ensuring that issues are dealt with in a timely fashion, proactively, spotting issues so they do not affect the organisation, rather than reactively, where problems are dealt with once they been reported to the relevant people. If there are major problems with the implementation then early phases of the PPDIOO methodology might need to be revisited, either at the design stage or possibly even as far back as the planning stage, to resolve the

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