Guideline: Defining Practices for Project Management
This guideline provides considerations for defining practices that projects will use for project management.
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The following are typical activities and key considerations for Project Management to reference as you define practices for your organization.

  • Define the approach to be used for establishing the scope of the project.
  • Describe procedures and approaches for estimating effort, cost, and schedule.
  • Based on the types of projects developed in the organization, define standard project lifecycles so teams will follow a consistent pattern of phases and milestones.
  • Establish a plan for project data management, including privacy and security of the data. The plan should promote consistency in data management and reporting processes and enable data sharing and analysis across the organization as appropriate.
  • Determine the process for staffing projects and training.
  • Define approaches for stakeholder involvement and communication plans.
  • Describe how teams will obtain commitment to plans
  • To ensure projects are monitored and controlled consistently and effectively, describe how actual performance and progress should be monitored against the project plan.
  • Define risk management procedures, including the identification of risks, contingency/ mitigation planning, and thresholds triggering mitigation actions.
  • Describe procedures for taking corrective actions.
  • List templates, tools and techniques that will be used by projects as they enact the project management practices.