Without a clear path to follow when it comes to managing projects, the task of achieving their desired objectives would prove very difficult. Constraints such as time, resources, budgets, scope and quality are all too significant to simply pass over without applying a scientific approach. Project management provides exactly that: a scientific approach that helps to ensure successful results through structure and organisation.
Organisations are constantly facing new challenges and opportunities. The world and marketplace is fast-paced and filled with uncertainties and opportunities for growth. Without the practise of project management, organisations would find themselves drowning in an ocean of failed projects and processes with few options of salvation. All organisations need to take project management seriously in order to survive and thrive.
Project Identification is a repeatable process for documenting, validating, ranking and approving candidate projects within an organization.Due to the changing financial conditions within the total organization, it is necessary to establish a stable process for approving projects for initiation. This process will validate the business reason for each candidate project.
Assign Resources: Even though a project has been selected, it does not become an "active" project until resources are approved and deployed against it. It is critical to remember that when resources are assigned from the Skills Inventory, this deployment has a proportionate impact on the resource's availability. The organization must be very careful to not over-commit limited resources in an attempt to "look" more productive.