Evaluation of effectiveness of project plan... D2
Monitoring:
Using a project plan gives a over view of what is required
of the people which are involved in that particular project, this is great as
they as they always know what to do when to complete it by and what their next
task is. This as a project manager will give you the outline of what is going
on within the team and give you a informed decisions of what is the next
logical step in order to make the project successfull.
Microsoft Project:
This software was very effective of producing Gantt charts was
very easy and straight forward, The Gantt chart told us what task to do next
and the time period we have to complete it buy, this was very effective as the
tasks had time periods they needed to be complete and by constantly referring
to it we were able to stick to most deadlines. This was very effective as from the
start we can all the tasks ahead and what needed to be done, this allowed us to
think about the next task whiles concentrating on the first and what input this
task will have in the next.
Initiation/Business case
This step was also very effectiveness as it gives the outline
of what it should be achieved in this case what the website will and will not
have, this was a very important step as it showed us what to have on the web
site and what not to include in the designs.
Meetings, Minuets/Agendas
At the beginning of each meeting there was minuets and
agendas, some of them where just between the team yet others between everyone who
was evolved in the project such as teams and clients. The minuets where very
point directed as they decided exactly what was going to be discussed in the
meeting, very effective as all points need to be hit in the meeting to have a
successful meeting and find out vital information, such as whether everything
is going as it should. The Agenda reflect on the Minuets and says what the outcome
of the meeting is and what the next step is, this method tells all the team
members exactly what to do and how to achieve it. This is a very good method of
hitting all necessary items in order for the project plan to be successful. This effectively allowed us to find out such
things as what the client wants in their website, ways to keep the project in
deadline conditions and ways of finishing the website.
Monitoring Team Members
At the start we said that we’ll communicate with a team
throughout blogger and emails, this proofed harder than planed because although
everyone checked their emails and blogs on regular it was very time consuming.
Whereas Abdul had a phone which I can call Remy didn’t this meant some communicated
messages between Abdul and I never got
through to him due to the fact it took too long to get a answer back. Where I would
send him a email to him on a Friday afternoon to see how he’s doing with the
coding aspect and finishing the website I will not get a message Saturday night
time where if I want to help him with something Monday will come. With a phone
the message get’s through much quicker, as I wanted to know if Abdul is
finished a 2 min call will answer all my worries and solve the problem.
Although communication through the computer didn’t slow down the communication
too much it would of been better if it was done through a quicker method such
as phone.
