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This 4 page paper looks at some of the critical success factors present within project management. The paper looks at the processes, and required components for effective project management, and the way in which these competitors should be managed. The bibliography cites 7 sources.
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that the key success factors are understood and activity managed in order in the context of that project. The first consideration in
planning a project is to define what that project it and what it needs to achieve, including ensuring that there is input for the end users who the project will
benefit (Olle, et al, 1983). For larger projects the major issue will be complexity cause by the number of different sub projects which may also mean the involvement of a
large number of various parities which all need co-ordination which can be help by management and software making it an advantage to help with communication in large complex projects (McElhearn,
2004, Kerzner, 2004). If we look at the different aspects of the projects such as lifecycle stages, the development of the process and the benefits of using software we can
consider the difficulties and management of large IT projects. There are a number of approaches which can be developed in order to
the different aspects of project management and stakeholder needs into account, one is the SEI (software engineering institutive model) which has been developed from the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) (Jones,
2000). This model states there are five main stages a project may go through. The first stage is where there are few
standard processes, communication is ad hoc and there is no tracking system to keep a record of what has been done or by whom. This is the stage which may
be see at the very beginning of a project. However, many projects may not start from this low point as a project infrastructure may already be in place. To
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