Importance Of Project Initiation

Project Initiation

The project initiation stage is the first stage in the project cycle, it consist of the processes perform to define a new project and obtain authorization to start the project. Project integration management plays a major role in the initiation stage of a project. Project integration management is the process that identifies, define, combine, unify and coordinate the various processes and project management activities in the project management process group. Project integration encompasses six processes, these processes are develop project charter, develop project management plan, direct and manage project work, monitor and control project work, perform integrated change control and close project. In the initiation stage

The planning phase is the only phase that encompasses all nine knowledge. Developing the project management plan which is the second process of integration management is executed first. A project management plan is the process of defining, preparing and coordination all subsidiary plans, the subsidiary plans are all the plans that are created from the other knowledge areas, and integrating them into a comprehensive project management plan (reference here). The project management plans includes information from the project charter such as the description, objective, deliverables, milestones and the project roles and their responsibilities. The project management plan touches on scope management, scope management is the collection of processes which ensure that the project includes all the work required to complete it while excluding all work which is not necessary to complete

Monitoring and Control is done in parallel with the project execution. While the project work is being executed Total Projects Services Ltd monitored and controlled the project by implementing the appropriate level of oversight and corrective action. They observed and measured the project regularly against the project plan to ensure that the project is within acceptable variances of cost, schedule and scope, and that risk is continually monitored and corrected as needed. Integrated Change Control process involves making sure that changes which resulted in corrective actions and other controlling factors are managed across the project knowledge areas. Total Projects Services Ltd main focus here is to manage changes to the project scope and when the change occur in one part of the project the manager must see how it would affect the other parts of the project. Total Projects Services Ltd will produce a change requests status update which will give the decision on what to do