Project management for small projects

Project management for small projects can be characterized by using a comparably small number of resources and matters to reach project results. Actually, the scale of project can be defined by scale of impact that this project is expected to produce. We can explain the difference between project scales with a help of simple example such as projects:

• building up a skyscraper – this work project requires engagement and operating with a large amount of different investments, activities, and resources – projecting, dealing with contractors, hiring thousands of people, massive budgeting, acquiring and storing a plenty of raw materials, setting and using different equipments, etc. All these arrangements need great organizational and administrative efforts of many highly-skilled professionals who should provide lots of their expertise in order to deliver the construction on-time, on-budget and on-quality.

• building a house – this project resembles constructing a skyscraper, but like if it was reduced to a very minimized scale, so that the main project activities stay basically the same (projecting a house, hiring contractors and workers, buying and transporting raw materials, etc), while all these tasks take much less time, costs and efforts (than if you were erecting a skyscraper). Besides this, all PM methods used when managing a skyscraper construction can be also used for building a small house for a standalone family.

Actually all the projects (their scale doesn’t really matter) have much in common, so that they can be managed with a help of certain standardized methods and tools. Good example of such a tool is VIP Task Manager that is a client-server program for managing team tasks and projects. Let’s consider some examples along with how the software can be used to facilitate these activities:

• research projects – every student should conduct some researching projects in order to prove received knowledge or qualification, and pass certain examinations. It can be supported by VIP Task Manager, so that you can easily track completion of all the research project components to deliver them on-time, along with controlling process of collecting and systematizing all the necessary information to ensure that all data is in the right place, put into report, and associated with appropriate materials.
• IT projects – this sphere includes a big number of specifics, such as software development projects that are managed via special techniques and methods allowing developers to deliver products on-time and on-requirements of their customers. Other examples include deploying some complex solutions which include setting up enterprise-wide computer networks, communicational equipment, and software. All these types of IT projects can be successfully managed with a help of VIP Task Manager that helps to plan and control time and costs of project activities.

• wedding – in spite of the fact that this is a personal arrangement, you need to take into account many different aspects and preparations which are far from romance. It is necessary for wedding planners to have a good supportive tool which can help them to take all the preparative tasks under control, so that restaurant and artists are booked, all guests are invited, and all supplies are ordered, etc. VIP Task Manager can be used as a good individual solution which makes work planning much easier in terms of particular tasks and their due dates as it represents them on three working modes: Task List, Task Tree and Calendar.

• Project management for events – there are thousands of different events which make our life more interesting, such as holiday celebrations, concerts, artistic performances, theatrical shows, etc. It is a hard job to organize such an arrangement to make it smoothly running and really joyful. VIP Task Manager is a tool which can make organizing of such public events a little bit easier as this product provides a project planner with different instruments such as reminders, email notifications, etc.

• design – it is necessary for creative people working in team to share their projects into portions to complete according to timeline agreed with their customers. VIP Task Manager can be successfully used as a project management tool for graphic design. With a help of this tool all the creative team members can plan and report their tasks in real-time.
• website development – VIP Task Manager can perfectly work for needs of PM for web design as it allows planning and tracking multiple projects and sub-projects in a form of checklists meaning different sections of web-site developing projects undertaken by a web-designer.