Date read: 22nd October 2025
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Key Point
- PM Tools:
- Help manage and execute project
- Help manage and achieve goals
- E.g. gantt charts, kanban boards etc
- PM Techniques:
- The ‘what’ you do. You have the tools now you need to implement them.
- e.g. agile, waterfall etc
- Gantt charts:
- Great for planning, scheduling, tracking where we are.
- Displays a critical path we need to meet to get there and bottlenecks
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Breaks down work into a set of smaller tasks in a tree structure
- Helps itemise work and see set of smaller tasks required to meet big goals.
- Project Network Diagrams:
- Show how parts of a project interact
- Identifies critical dependencies
- Kanban Boards
- Monitor mvoings tasks and teams’ work.
- Help collaboration as you can see what others have done and are doing
- Helps understand what needs to be done NOW.
- Risk Registers:
- Documents potential risk a project my face
- Records their likelihood and impact and introduces methods to mitigate them
- Change logs:
- Track changes everyone has made (e.g. through GitHub)
- Agile:
- Breakdown work into sprints
- Regular syncs and retrospectives to increase team comms
- PERT: Program Evaluation and Review Technique
- Create a WBS (micro-tasks) and estimate the cost and time
- Cost-Benefit Analysis:
- Perform a CBA to choose which tasks to do
- Earned Value Management:
- Monitor planned vs actual value achieved throughout a project
- Stakeholder mapping
- Map which stakeholders are relying on what and how they influence a project
- Feasibility studies