{"id":155,"date":"2019-01-29T08:27:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T08:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smartadmin.co.in\/blog\/?p=155"},"modified":"2020-04-14T13:52:42","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T13:52:42","slug":"project-documentation-and-success-of-project-importance-of-documentation-in-project-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartadmin.co.in\/news\/project-documentation-and-success-of-project-importance-of-documentation-in-project-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Documentation and Success of Project – Importance of Documentation in Project Management"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the life cycle of the project, project manager has to handle multiple documents related to planning, tracking and reporting. Documents range from feasibility report, resource allocation, financial data, change request forms, project status reports, post-implementation reviews, and more.<\/p>\n

The effective document management can be the driving force behind a project’s success or in the absence of the same it will turn out to be the bottleneck that often places a project in despair.\u00a0 Project manager is expected to manage the unexpected and that makes him or her unique in their role.\u00a0 A project management<\/a> plays a vital role in mitigating and managing the unexpected.\u00a0 It also helps to effectively communicate progress and status updates to all stakeholders.\u00a0 The reusing of successful project plans, complex business-case documents, standard contracts, detailed specification sheets, and project status reports are necessary to improve the effectiveness of a project manager.\u00a0 This helps in balancing the evils of unmanageable paperwork that can impede their ability to focus on their core competencies of managing the project.<\/p>\n

Although the project document workflow will vary from organization to organization, good project managers will develop a number of basic project documents as follows.<\/p>\n