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SDI’s Project Management Methodology provides a defined, systematic process for planning, directing, monitoring, adjusting, and controlling a series of interrelated activities. This process enables our clients to achieve agreed-upon objectives under the constraints of budget, time, resources, and technology.
Throughout the entire life of a project, SDI’s Methodology will provide project activities that will manage scope of services, time, cost, and quality management. SDI organizes its PM Methodology around seven functional areas in accordance with the Project Management Institute (of which SDI is a corporate member) and their recognized Body of Knowledge. The purpose of these functional areas is to ensure that projects are completed to specification, on time, and within budget.
1) Project Integration Management - ensures that the various elements of the project are properly coordinated. It consists of project plan development, project plan execution, and overall change control.
2) Project Scope Management - ensures that the project includes all the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully. It comprises initiation, scope planning, scope definition, scope verification, and scope change control.
3) Project Time Management - ensures timely completion of the project. It comprises activity definition, activity sequencing, activity duration estimating, schedule development, schedule control, critical path management, schedule implementation, and communications plan.
4) Project Cost Management - ensures that the project is completed within the approved budget. It consists of resource planning, cost estimating, cost budgeting, cost control, performance reporting, comparing plans to actual, and investigating variances between plan and reality.
5) Project Quality Management - ensures that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken. It comprises quality planning, quality assurance, and quality control.
6) Project Human Resource Management - makes the most effective use of the people involved with the project. It consists of organizational planning, staff acquisition, and team development.
7) Project Communications Management - ensures timely and appropriate generation, collection, dissemination, storage, and ultimate disposition of project information. It comprises communications planning, information distribution, performance reporting, and administrative closure.
