Radical Project Management

Maintaining the Project Management File

All the information discussed throughout this book should be integrated and stored as a managed document—the project management file. All changes to this information should be recorded and, where appropriate, approved by the project sponsor and steering committee:

• Initial business case,

• Detailed project schedules,

• Stakeholder agreements,

• Stakeholder reports,

• Project tracking reports and summaries,

• Project reports,

• Project metrics,

• Quality assurance summaries,

• Any changes to the business case (approved by the project sponsor and steering committee), and

• Other project management reports.

The Business Case Is the Focus of Everything

Too many traditional project management models further complicate an already complex ...