INFORMATION: Project Templates

PRINCE 2 and PMP qualified professionals developed the SKM Project Management Steps Templates over several years.

We spend thousands of hours researching, developing and using the templates to ensure its continued relevance and benefits across the following industries and sectors:

Advertising, Media & Entertainment
Call Centre & Customer Services
Construction & Civil Engineering
Defence, Military & Armed Forces
Education
Engineering
Finance, Accounting & Banking
Food & Hospitality
Healthcare & Medical
HR & Recruitment
IT & Telecommunications
Legal
Manufacturing
Mining, Energy, Oil & Gas
Office & Administration
Retail & Consumer Products
Sales & Marketing
Science, Biotech & Pharmaceuticals
Trades & Services
Transport & Logistics
Travel & Tourism

Over 30 ‘ready to use’ project document templates, which covers all stages in a typical Project Delivery Lifecycle

The templates are used successfully by:

Managers,
Teams,
Consultants and
Trainers

to start-up, initiate, define, plan, execute, close and deliver both IT and business projects.

Additionally, Business owners use the program to help stage Marketing Events, Conferences, Seminars, Product launches or Office moves.

Also, Lecturers and Educationists use the program to teach the principles of project management to their students. They also include the project document templates into their discussions to with students to role-play real-life situations and scenarios.

The image below shows the list of the 30 ‘Ready to Use’ Project Templates:

project management steps

Click here for an alphabetic listing of the templates and a product description of each one.

During our research, we found that many templates, including the ‘FREE Download’ variety, were VERY basic, and did not offer a large amount of background information and guidance for how to use it. In other words, they did not provide TRAINING. The templates we produce and offer do not fit into that category. The differences between the SKM Project Document templates and those from some of our competitors are:

There is a consistent look and feel to the SKM template.

There is typically a lot of ‘training’ embedded in the SKM template, they are substantive

The SKM templates are in an easily adapted format. All the SKM templates are created in Microsoft Office format and used to deliver projects in any project focused environment, including PRINCE 2 and PM-BOK

The SKM templates are not expensive

The SKM templates are regularly assessed and updated to reflect current project management ‘best practice’
These templates will give you a great boost and confidence when used in your work environment. They help will you to manage your projects better and improve your project success.

Please find attached, links to PDF samples of the SKM Business Case and Project Status Report document templates. Click here

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Project planning principles can be applied to any endeavor: whether you are managing a project; launching a new business service or product; setting-up a new business; or just looking to managing yourself, or your team, better. I use these ideas for my corporate clients, and it works!!

The article features 4 Project Phases / Steps

Project Management Steps:

A Guide to Project Planning

The key to a successful project is in the planning. Creating a project plan is the first thing you should do when undertaking any kind of project, to save time, money and many other problems.

STEP 1: Project Goals

A project is successful when the needs of the stakeholders have been met. A stakeholder is anybody directly or indirectly impacted by the project.

As a first step, in the project governance process, it is important to identify the stakeholders in your project. It is not always easy to identify the stakeholders of a project, particularly those impacted indirectly.

Once you understand who the stakeholders are, the next step is to find out their needs. The next step is to prioritise them.

From the prioritised list, create a set of goals that can be easily measured. A technique for doing this is to review them against the SMART principle. This way it will be easy to know when a goal has been achieved.

Once you have established a clear set of goals, they should be recorded in the project plan.

It’s then time to move on and look at the project deliverables.

STEP 2: Project Deliverables

Using the goals you have defined in STEP 1, create a list of things the project needs to deliver in order to meet those project management steps goals. Specify when and how each item must be delivered.

Add the deliverables to the project plan with an estimated delivery date. More accurate delivery dates will be established during the scheduling phase, which is next.

STEP 3: Project Planning & Management

Create a list of tasks that need to be carried out for each deliverable identified in STEP 2. For each task identify the following:

• The amount of effort (hours or days) required to complete the task.
• The resource who will carry-out the task.

Once you have established the amount of effort for each task, you can work-out the effort required for each deliverable, and an accurate delivery date. Update your deliverables section with the more accurate delivery dates.

STEP 4: Supporting Plans

This section deals with plans you should create as part of the planning process. These can be included directly in the plan.

• Human Resource Plan
• Communications Plan
• Risk Management Plan

Risk management is an important part of the project management framework. Although often overlooked, it is important to identify as many risks to your project as possible, and be prepared if something bad happens.

Here are some examples of common project risks:

• Time and cost estimates too optimistic.
• Customer review and feedback cycle too slow.
• Unexpected budget cuts.
• Unclear roles and responsibilities.
• Stakeholder input is not sought, or their needs are not properly understood.
• Stakeholders changing requirements after the project has started.
• Stakeholders adding new requirements after the project has started.
• Poor communication resulting in misunderstandings, quality problems and rework.
• Lack of resource commitment.

Risks can be tracked using a simple risk log.

Congratulations. Having followed all the steps above, you should have a good project plan. Remember to update your plan as the project progresses, and measure progress against the plan.

Successful projects need good project management templates and methodology. Get yours with the SKM Project Management Steps program.

Sample Sheets/ Templates

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