Project Management Basics: How to Manage Your Project with Checklists

© Melanie McBride 2016

Melanie McBride, Project Management Basics, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2086-3_4

4. Executing Your First Project

a.k.a. The Execution Phase

Melanie McBride¹ 

(1)Chandler, Arizona, USA

By this point in time, you should have completed all of the items on Checklist #2; that is, you should have a solid project plan. In the Execution Phase of the project you will move from creating project management artifacts into using them. Here you will leverage the work you did to kick off the project and the stakeholder management plan to facilitate regular team meetings. You will use your project Change Control Board to participate in the program- or organization-level Change Control Board(s). You will utilize the project schedule to track work and ...