Project Management Simplified

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Steps to Execute Your Project

If you, as the project manager, have been working on your project while reading this book, you have a completed project plan, reviewed and approved by stakeholders. The project manager now begins to execute this plan. If there is no project plan, now is the time to create one with your stakeholders before beginning project execution.

Below are the steps for project execution along with some problems that may occur if there is no project plan. Recall that project execution includes both the steps to create the project plan and the steps to execute this plan. Each step is a predecessor for the steps that follow, so it should be complete before proceeding. Sometimes, the project manager decides to continue to the ...