P6 core concepts
What is P6? At its heart, P6 is an application for scheduling projects. Yet as we mentioned earlier, what a project means can vary greatly. And though the end product is varied, every project shares some common characteristics:
- There are deliverables (what the customer is paying for)
- There is scope of work to meet the requirements of the deliverables
- There is the management of:
- Time
- Cost
- Resources (people, materials, and equipment)
- Communication among the project team
- Project Documentation
- Risks
- Purchases
Project Management Life Cycle
A project has many phases, and these phases can be grouped in many ways using different terminologies and methodologies. One widely used and generally accepted categorization is as follows:
- Initiation – deciding ...
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