Step 1.5 Delivery and deliverables

There is a word that project managers and people involved regularly in projects use all the time; it is delivery. Delivery in the context of projects simply means getting the things done you set out to do. Your role as a project manager is therefore to deliver the project.

Delivery is a useful piece of jargon as it saves having to write “completing the project to the expected time and cost with the desired outcome” again and again!

Deliverables are what is delivered by a project – so taking the examples above, the deliverables from the respective projects are a new house, a new computer system or a new product. In a project the deliverables wanted are defined at the start of the project, and your success as ...

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