Tham khảo tài liệu 'fundamentals of project management worksmart by james p. lewis_7', kinh doanh - tiếp thị, quản trị kinh doanh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 120 Fundamentals of Project Management I be considered valid. The primary tool for project evaluation is the project process review which is usually conducted at major milestones throughout the life of the project. Purposes of Project Evaluation Sports teams that practice without reviewing performance may get really good at playing very badly. That is why they review game films to see where they need to improve. In other words the purpose of a review is to learn lessons that can help the team to avoid doing things that cause undesired outcomes and to continue doing those that help. The review should be called a lessons-learned or process review. I have deliberately avoided the word audit because nobody likes to be audited. Historically an audit has been designed to catch people doing things they shouldn t have done so that they can be penalized in some way. If you go around auditing people you can be sure they will hide from you anything they don t want you to know and it is those very things that could help the company learn and grow. As Dr. W. Edwards Deming has pointed out there are two kinds of organizations in this world today those that are getting better and those that are dying. An organization that stands still is dying. It just doesn t know it yet. The reason The competition is not sitting by idly. It is doing new things some of which may be better than what you are doing. If you aren t improving you will be passed by and soon you won t have a market. The same is true of every part of an organization. You can t suboptimize improving just manufacturing. You have to improve every department and that includes how you run projects. In fact good project management can give you a real competitive advantage especially in product development. If you are sloppy in managing your projects you don t have good control of Good management of projects can give you a competitive advantage. American Management Association I Project Control and Evaluation 121
