Introduction | Background | Managing the Project
Strategic Design of a Comprehensive Project Management System (CPMS)  
Important Areas to Consider | Standard Success Criteria
The System Can Be Evaluated Separately from the Task | End Game
Editor's Footnote  | PART 2

Editor's Footnote

Shortly after Larry Bennigson published his paper back in 1971, Bob Youker Of the World Bank (see sidebar) made the following comments and illustrated this paper's concepts with the diagram shown in Figure 1 below:

"After reading Larry Bennigson's paper in 1972, I prepared the following chart to use in training programs. I used it as a summary at the end of a course to present Larry’s ideas on design of comprehensive project management systems. Not just information systems but the complete project management system including organizational design and decision processes. In addition to Larry's various criteria and constraints I added the basic project management processes on the left side of the chart. In presenting to a class I started with everything covered with small scraps of paper. I started uncovering from Conception to Completion and so on in a counter clockwise direction. (Of course, with MS PowerPoint you can now produce the same effect electronically.) This is a very powerful way to pull together all of the aspects of project management.

Figure 1: Strategy for designing project management systems

The End Game

PART 2

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