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Put in life experiences and examples

While projects make up the smallest and narrowest focus of the project, program, and portfolio dynamic, within the project portion of the dynamic exists a complex series of activities and tasks that work together to make the project successful. This breakdown of a project ensures each portion of a project is labeled and assigned without individual project team members stepping on each other’s toes. Projects are dynamic short-term activities with the goal of providing a benefit to the company through new products or services or creating changes for long-term operations (Kaleshovska, 2014, pg. 154). To better understand and communicate the purposes behind these parts of a project, to those in our field without project management knowledge, I wanted to attempt an analogy to explain each part.

            The project life cycle is the collection of all tasks, activities, phases, and processes that are involved in a project from start to finish (PMI, 2017, pg. 18). This cycle for a project is much like the life cycle experienced by humanity. We all have a beginning and end with every experience, idea, opportunity, challenge, and accomplishment falling somewhere in between these two points.

            The phases within a project are defined by a group of activities designed to work towards a deliverable with the project life cycle (PMI, 2017, pg. 18). These phases are towards the collective goal of accomplishing tasks that help move a project forward. Projects consist of phases that are interdependent, each one relies on the others in order to progress the project successfully (Dinsmore & Cabanis-Brewin, 2018). In a project this could look like the collection of approvals from stakeholders on a project task while workers execute the task. While these activities are accomplished by different teams, and possibly from different departments, their joint effort to finish the deliverable share a unified goal (PMI, 2017, pg. 20). Throughout our lives we engage in a plethora of activities that require our attention and actions. In early childhood this takes shape as we learn our ABC’s, colors, and numbers. These individual experiences work together to build an achieved deliverable: our ability to understand the world around us and to communicate. These phases in human life are repeated throughout the lifecycle as we build a broader and deeper understanding of the world around us. Eventually these phases have different deliverables, such as achieving workplace success and starting a family. However, if we break these activities down to their simplest parts, we can see a multitude of smaller influences and tasks that build into these deliverable phases.

            Finally, with project process groups, we have a collection of phases, tools, techniques, lessons learned, input, and outputs that are used to categorize the project life cycle into groups (PMI, 2017, pg. 18). These process groups are independent of phases or the project life cycle as they can be applied to the start of a new project or new phase (PMI, 2017, pg. 23). These process groups categorize activities, tools, and deliverables into five potential groups: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing. Each of these groups serve a purpose while establishing how a project’s life cycle will progress and/or change throughout its existence. Whether we are discussing the human life as a whole or individual milestones within that life, we can categorize life’s experiences into similar process groups.

Initiating is that first idea or thought that pops into our heads that can inspire an action. It is that first spark of life and first breath we take in the world that opens the potential and possibility for new experiences.

The Planning process group is our rigorous attempt to follow these new ideas to the point of action by analyzing all the potential opportunities and threats that can occur as we follow our vision. It is the development of a child’s sense of self and knowledge as they take in the world around them and begin to understand their hopes and dreams.

             The Execution group is action. Applying all our knowledge and abilities to make our vision become reality. It is the observable experiences in life as we hone our skills, delve into academics, and make waves in the workplace. It is our conversation with others, the building of relationships, and cooperative actions we take with friends and family.

            The Monitoring & Controlling process group is the all-encompassing activity that goes on behind the scenes to formulate changes to the lifecycle to better ensure its success. As we strive at our goals, we observe our actions and the actions of others in order to better understand what is going right or wrong in each situation. Throughout life it is our conscious analysis of what we know, what we need to know and how to learn and adapt our activities to reach the milestones we wish to accomplish.

            And lastly, the closing process group gives us our lessons learned and helps us understand what we have achieved. It is the toast at the end of a hard day’s work as we celebrate our accomplishments with others and discuss what these achievements will garner us in the future and how we can learn from any mistakes we made throughout the task. It is the end of the life cycle, when we reminisce on all we had done in life and share those experience with our children, grandchildren, and the next generation so that they may learn from a life well-lived.

 References

Dinsmore, P. C., & Cabanis-Brewin, J. (2018). The AMA handbook of project management (5th ed.). New York: AMACOM, American Management Association.

Kaleshovska, N. (2014). Adopting project management offices to exploit the true benefits of project management. Economic Development / Ekonomiski Razvoj, (1–2), 151–165.

Project Management Institute, Inc. (2017). Guide to project management body of knowledge (Newest Edition). Newton Square, PA: Author.