Project Execution and Delivery

Course details

Once a project moves into the Execution Phase, the project team and the necessary resources to carry out the project should be in place and ready to perform project activities. The Project Plan should have been completed and baselined by this time as well. The project team and specifically the Project Manager's focus now shifts from planning the project efforts to participating in, observing, and analyzing the work being done. The Project Plan Execution Process ensures that planned project activities are carried out in an effective and efficient way while ensuring that measurements against project plans, specifications, and the original project feasibility concept continue to be collected, analyzed and acted on throughout the project lifecycle. Without a defined project execution process each project team would execute projects using their own best practices, experience, and methods; allowing certain control, tracking and corrective action activities to be missed. It is important to note that project execution relies heavily on the plans developed in the Planning Phase. There is already enough work to do within the Execution Phase of the project, therefore having to reinvent ways of dealing with risk, change requests, training and resource issues, and other such obstacles to progress are impractical and undesirable. It is also critical during the Execution Phase that the Project Manager supports and monitors the execution of other important project plans such as the Communications Plan, the Risk Plan and Procurement Plan via daily interaction with the project team and stakeholders

Project Execution and Controlling consists of the processes used to complete the work defined in the project plan to accomplish the project's requirements. Execution process involves coordinating people and resources, as well as integrating and performing the activities of the project in accordance with the project management plan. The deliverables are produced as outputs from the processes performed as defined in the project management plan and other frameworks that might be applicable to the type of project at hand.

In this course on Project Execution and Delivery, we will be covering the followings:

 Direct and manage project execution

 Quality assurance of deliverables

 Acquire, develop and manage Project team

 Distribute information

 Manage stakeholder expectations

 Conduct procurement

 Test the deliverables against the initial design