Project management program

The flow of actual project management should be guided by certain master program that predefines some baselines to adhere while performing all important functions throughout project’s lifecycle and several essential areas. Such a plan may comprise a set of interrelated policies on coping with different project-related matters, so the whole body of the project appears really consistent, more manageable and predictable, and therefore less fraught with unforeseen risks or grounds for mismanagement. It may include particular pieces of guidance on the following things:

• Baseline to handle HR issues (HR policy and strategy);
• Baseline for decision-making (methods and tactics on decision-making);
• Baseline for maintaining PR (official PR strategy to publish news or announcements);
• Baseline to observe informational security (methods, technologies and regulations protecting the project against informational threats);
• Baseline on workforce planning (program of trainings, promotions, competency management, etc);
• Baseline to approach customers (policy on customer retention, communication, etc); 

Stages of PM Shareware Development:

• initiation – as soon as the organization that wants to carry out a project gets clear enough on their vision, needs, expectancies, objectives, resources, project ownership, and therefore is about developing a more specific project plan, they need to initiate a program that will embrace different supportive areas of the project, so the project workflow will appear more stable, seamless and smoothly running, without being hampered by some unforeseen troubles caused by mismanagements on HR or relations with customers, or any fails on PR, workforce, etc;
• planning – once such a program is initiated, its coverage should be planned, so the entire package of inclusive procedures and other items can be designed in parallel and coordination with the project’s main plan (to be attached to it once it is finished and ready for execution);
• training – the project manager’s assistants and all other team members should be introduced to the program, its components, and get an explanation of their roles in the program’s performance;
• evaluation – it is necessary to assume ongoing measurements and analytical efforts to figure out the program’s efficiency and need for amendments; 

Software

Such a program (as well as actually a project) can be managed with a help of VIP Task Manager that is client-server software with rich capabilities on scheduling, assigning and controlling tasks in real-time regime. This commercial product has taken high positions (2^nd place) on international project management program rankings for scheduling software.

Let’s consider some of its capabilities:

• Plan – owing to this tool the project managers, their assistants and other subordinates can share plans of project tasks, objectives, costs, quality items, etc. All these things can be planned in a combined manner in four interface modes: Task List to display interactive to-do lists and worksheets, Task Tree mode to compose multilevel WBS (tree-like maps of activities), Calendar mode to outline the project schedules, and inbuilt Archive mode to keep a set of program templates;
• Schedule – Calendar mode of VIP Task Manager can be successfully used to compose and share a schedule of the program’s components to let managers know when certain objectives are expected to be reached, what essential target dates reside on the project’s timeline to go though, and how the project’s supportive program is associated with different stages of the project; 

•   WBS – using Task Tree mode of VIP Task Manager you will be able to break your projects down into multilevel hierarchical structures of interrelated tasks and task groups being managed from a single dashboard, along with supportive program where each element is associated with certain project’s stage or task;
•   Templates – in order to clear your major working field from excessive items, you can store templates of your typical or recurring projects and programs in Archive mode until you need to derive and use them;