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Management in India: Grow from an Accidental to a successful manager in the IT & knowledge industry
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Management in India: Grow from an Accidental to a successful manager in the IT & knowledge industry

by Rahul Goyal
May 2012
Beginner content levelBeginner
328 pages
8h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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What to consider when creating a plan

A plan obviously involves the breakdown of tasks, resource assignment, and scheduling, and any kind of plan will involve those. Planning aspects can be bucketed into four areas:

  • Big picture understanding
  • Work assignment and execution
  • Monitoring
  • Risk management

Let us now examine the considerations in each of the previous points.

The big picture

For a usual project to be delivered, a project manager can focus only at the deliverable at hand, but that will create all sorts of problems since a project does not exist in isolation. The big picture includes things that are beyond the immediate deliverable that may or may not impact the project deliverable.

Identifying the deliverable and greater purpose

The plan is obviously ...

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