Five Project Stages - Overview
Organisations that manage projects on a regular basis develop their own internal framework of Project Stages, based on the project life cycle but translated to suit their own projects and business. Such frameworks specify the stages that projects should progress through with "stocktake" points at the end of each stage.
The following are typical project stages.
Stage 1 - Project Planning
This stage covers the work involved in identifying a need or
a problem, generating ideas and options, and then developing a
preferred agreed proposal or solution - "this is what we
should do".
The proposal stage should close with a Project Proposal - a
brief report covering what is to be delivered by the project
(outcomes and outputs) and the best general approach to
delivering them. After this is agreed, the project is formally
started.
A brief analysis and study to establish what the project will involve, what the risks and possible difficulties are, and how the project should be organised and tackled. To be summarised in a short Project Scoping Report or Project Plan.
Stage 2 - Gap Analysis and Design
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Stage 3 - Development
Stage 4 - Deployment
Carrying out the implementation in terms of progressing the project activities, managing any people involved, and ensuring support for the project.
Stage 5 - Adoption
To ensure that the project is closed and that the responsibilities have been allocated for any future maintenance activities that need to be carried out.