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Tailor your approach to meet project and organizational needs

Tailor your approach to meet project and organizational needs

From the course: Project Management Foundations

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Tailor your approach to meet project and organizational needs

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- [Educator] Project management approach, governance, and processes aren't one-size-fits-all. What makes sense for a critical, complex multi-year project would overwhelm a simple one-month endeavor. What factors do you consider when determining how to tailor your approach? Project size, duration, and complexity are key factors. You want to make sure that your approach includes activities needed for effective project management without wasting time and money on more processes than necessary. You also want to take into account the industry and culture of the organization. For example, you might have to follow certain approaches in a highly regulated industry, or your organization may require that you follow a specific methodology. Approach and lifecycle are two examples of tailoring. Is your project better suited to waterfall, Agile, incremental, or a combination of approaches? For example, building construction might use waterfall, while developing a new web-based service might use…

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