Direct and manage project work is a concept of the waterfall development approach. It is now considered as a part of the processes and process groups model in project management among models, methods, and artifacts. There is still a tailoring process but inputs to the process and tools and techniques to be used are given as a standard.
In the scope of direct and manage project work process, the work defined in the Project Management Plan is implemented in order to achieve the project objectives. It is a process in which integration is carried out by interacting with the planned works within the scope of all fields of knowledge with a different saying. The project manager focuses on all areas of knowledge in this process. There are three main functions of the process that you should keep in mind. This is the main function:
- To carry out the planned project activities in order to achieve the project goals,
- Creating business performance reports and related change requests,
- Applying approved changes, correcting errors
The main benefit that will be obtained at the end of the process of Directing and Managing Project Work is to ensure overall management of the work and project outputs carried out within the scope of the project and to increase the likelihood of the project being successful.
Direct and Manage Project Work Inputs
All components of the project management plan are used in this process as input.
- Requirements management plan: This plan is used to apply pre-determined necessary resources to real processes.
- Schedule management plan: Project work should be done according to the schedule management plan.
- Scope management plan: As it is obvious, we perform the work the way which was defined in the scope management plan.
- Cost management plan: The expenditures during this process should be in accordance with the cost management plan
- Stakeholder engagement plan: This plan is always important, this time to involve necessary stakeholders in relevant processes.
- Risk management plan: While executing the project work, risks should be taken into consideration according to the risk management plan.
- Procurement management plan: Sometimes, procurements will take place as a part of project execution.
- Quality management plan: Quality is one of the main goals of a project. So, it is not a surprise quality management plan is here.
- Resource management plan: Project execution will consume resources of the project including human and physical resources.
- Communications management plan: Communications takes %95 of project manager's time. While managing project work an efficient communication in accordance with the communications management plan.
- Change control plan: Changes in projects are inevitable. However we should stay loyal to the change management plan while making changes to the project scope.
- Configuration management plan
- Scope baseline : The work to be done is simply written here.
- Schedule baseline: Our schedule to follow is here.
- Cost baseline: All project work and management effort has a cost.
- Performance measurement baseline
- Project life cycle description
- Development approach
The other inputs are;
- Project schedule
- Requirements traceability matrix
- Risk register
- Risk report
- Change log
- Lessons learned register
- Milestone list
- Enterprise environmental factors
- Organizational Process Assets
Direct and Manage Project Work Tools and Techniques
- Project management information system
- Meetings
- Expert judgment