Successful Project Management Process Paper

There are five keys to success when developing successful process and system development projects. The key strategy to success include: create a work breakdown structure, estimate time and cost, create a project plan, adjust the plan via trade-offs, and manage development challenges. Each of these phases help to accomplish the desired outcome of a successful process and system development projects. “Work breakdown structure is a hierarchy of tasks required to complete a project” (Kroenke, 2015, p. 398). Because most projects are too large and too complicated creating a work breakdown structure helps to divide and conquer each projects. “Instead, successful project managers break the project into smaller and smaller tasks until each task is small enough to estimate and manage” (Kroenke, 2015, p. 398). After the completion of each task the project manager is given results called deliverables. The information provided …show more content…
In order to determine the time and cost for a project organizations uses a variety of approaches. “One is to avoid scheduling problems altogether and never develop systems and software in-house. Instead, they license packages, such as ERP systems, that include both business processes and information systems components” (Kroenke, 2015, p. 398). Additionally, if what an organization needs does not exist, they can admit to not having a desired completion date. Another approach that can be used to determine time and cost is to use information from a similar past project. This method can be used for planning and determining a schedule estimate.

“Technical feasibility refers to weather existing information technology is likely to be able to meet the needs of the new system” (Kroenke, 2015, p. 389). “Organizational feasibility concerns whether the new system fits within the organization’s customs, culture, charter, or legal requirements” (Kroenke, 2015, p.