Project management framework

Project management framework is a methodical and theoretical attitude promoting a pattern-based approach including different essential elements making processes of planning, controlling and reporting much easier than if they were when designing all these workflows and supporting materials from the very beginning. As it follows from this project management framework definition – there are different elements specifying different PM aspects and matterr for example project’s quality, finances, resources, working tasks, objectives, team etc. 

Facts about and examples of project management frameworks:

Method of using typical templates is especially justified and recommended when an organization needs to manage some recurring projects, as this is a direct and logical way to economize time and efforts of project administrators who can apply certain templates instead of re-inventing everything over again. Reasoning from some shared project management materials (including Wiki references), we can briefly summarize that concept embraces some essential requirements and facts:

• Templates and frameworks can automate almost all the PM aspects, delivering certain facilitation on each of them. However, they still cannot completely eliminate a need for doing some absolutely necessary amount of planning work, so templates’ efficiency can be evaluated comparatively, due to amount of minimal efforts they don’t cover.

• Usually these patterns are samples of certain documents, or forms where you can find certain space for making modifications to adjust these regulative and administrative documents up to needs of each new project, and to align them with some current project’s specifics. PM examples are templates for Finances Mgt Plan, Quality Mgt Plan, Resources Mgt Plan, WBS, etc.
• All templates can be turned into electronic format and systematized in a sole electronic databank where managers can easily access, use, and modify them. This is a really beneficial and progressive approach that brings even more facilitation and automation in process of projects planning, controlling and reporting. You can consider this in the following paragraph where a special example is reviewed.

Software

The main questions are about designing, storing, sharing and using these different templates to support concerned project elements and objects. All these operations can be easily performed with a help of special software such as VIP Task Manager that is a multiuser client-server program with database where managers can store some matters such as tasks and objectives explained in time, costs, budgets, resources, etc. Each user can benefit from using a type of presentation that suits his needs at the moment, as this software features three agile interface modes – Task List, Task Tree and Calendar. This product features multiple capabilities such as diagrams for analyzing current situation, task tree to share map of stages among multiple team members, to-do lists for individuals, etc.