Provide the base information for more informed financial commitments to projects. Establish a more objective ranking of candidate projects.Allow a more effective matching of skilled resources to the right project. Avoid over-allocating limited skilled resources. Anticipate future human resource quantities and skills. Provide a valid basis for staff training. Make Project Initiation faster and more efficient.
The key feature of this activity is recognizing that identifying candidate projects is something that an organization should do on a regular basis, not just once each year. Further, when examining projects for approval, it is vital to also examine the resource capacities and capabilities available for assignment. It is futile to assign a major new project requiring extensive discovery of business requirements if no business analysts are available. Project Identification proceeds Project Initiation.
Quality is continuously managed: More so than ever, it is important to produce quality results. Project management helps to identify, manage and control quality. Quality results make clients happy, which is a win-win situation for all involved.