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project management 
is to foresee as many contingencies as possible and to plan, organise, 
co-ordinate and control activities. 
Management task 
Comment 
Outline project planning
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Developing project targets such as overall costs or timescale (eg project 
should take 20 weeks) 
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Dividing the project into activities (eg analysis, programming, testing) 
and placing these activities into the right sequence, often a complicated 
task if overlapping 
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Developing the procedures and structures, managing the project (eg plan 
weekly team meetings, performance reviews) 
Detailed planning
Identifying the tasks and resource requirements; network analysis for 
scheduling 
Teambuilding
The project manager has to meld the various people into an effective team 
Communication
The project manager must let key project stakeholders know what is going 
on, and ensure that members of the project team are properly briefed 
Co-ordinating project 
activities
Between the project team and clients/users, and other external parties (eg 
suppliers of hardware and software) 
Monitoring and control 
The project manager should determine causes of any departure from the 
plan, and take corrective measures 
Problem resolution 
Unforeseen problems may arise, and it falls on the project manager to sort 
them out, or to delegate the responsibility for doing so to a subordinate 
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PART D: LEADING AND MANAGING INDIVIDUALS AND TEAMS 
 
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Writers on management 
The classical writers on management and organisation were largely concerned with