PMP
When experience alone is not enough

The Project Management Framework embodies a project life cycle; it covers five major project management Process Groups:
Initiating.
Planning.
Executing
Monitoring and Controlling
Closing

Remember these five groups as you  think about your environment.  Think of the above process groups as necessary steps in the evolution of a process or project life cycle.  That is, there is always a starting point, even if that starting point is the initial call from the customer to the support center technician.  There is a story of a neighbor who cleared out his basement because he wanted to build a theater.  He successfully moved from the initiating phase to the planning phase where he developed all of  the drawings, all of the power requirements, and even had sufficient detail to show where the microwave oven was going.  But now six years have gone by and he is still designing and drawing.  PMP teaches among other things that each of these processes has its own "closing" life cycle.  At some point, you must stop initiating and move to planning, then stop and move on to the next step.  Clearly the neighbor has to close the planning stage of his basement project and move on to the execution phase..

Now re-examine the above five groups and point to where your core projects should be then point to where they have stalled.   Most Project Managers forget about "closing."   They are content to have the overall project "appear to be moving right along."  Eventually, their house of cards catches up to them because everything stops moving.  If your projects are not getting completed, which means they are not closing, give us a call at 301-423-9177 or use our Contact page to send us a request.  We will examine your current process.  We can locate sticking points and make recommendations on what needs to be done to get it functioning more efficiently.