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Project Management Step by Step: How to Plan and Manage a Highly Successful Project
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Project Management Step by Step: How to Plan and Manage a Highly Successful Project

by Richard Newton
January 2006
Beginner
168 pages
3h 21m
English
Pearson Education Canada
Content preview from Project Management Step by Step: How to Plan and Manage a Highly Successful Project

Step 1.7 The stages of a project – a lifecycle

Every project goes through various stages in its development. These stages vary depending on the type of project. For example, a project to build a new car has different stages compared to a project to develop an advertising campaign for a new type of washing detergent. However, at a generic level projects must go through common steps such as:

1.
Specifying in detail what the project is for.
2.
Planning the project and working out how it will be done.
3.
Doing the project and creating the deliverables according to the plan.
4.
Checking that the deliverables are as you originally wanted and meet the needs.
5.
Closing the project down.

These five steps defined are a simple project lifecycle. The lifecycle ...

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