Chapter 4 Ideas (June 19-June 25)

Chapter 4 Ideas

1. Publish a project charter. Before reading this chapter, I never know the exact process of how to do a project. This chapter introduces why and what a project charter do? It contains the name and purpose of the project, the project manager’s name and a statement of support from the issuer. Also there are three methods of documenting the project rules: the statement of work, the responsibility matrix, and the communication plan.

2. The content of Statement of Work. They are purpose statement, scope statement, deliverable, cost and schedule estimates, objectives, stakeholders and chain of command. The scope statement is very impressive. The scope statement should describe the major activities of the project in such a way that it will be absolutely clear if extra work is added later on. I will implement this kind of method into my own project and hope it will make my project work better.

3. Communication Plan is a totally new thing for me. It is the written strategy for getting the right information to the right people at the right time. Now I understand, for a project, there must be so many things to communicate, and if there is no communication plan, it is very likely that some important communication are not made on time or not made to the right person, which will lead to very bad results of the project. Maybe the communication plan is not important for a small project but it is indeed very important for some big project s in the companies.