TLI213 Lit Review 5 - Project Deliverables
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Eunice Mao
9/20/2021
Project Deliverables
What is a Deliverable in Project Management?
This article defined what project deliverables are and discussed how to manage and
track deliverables in a project. Project deliverables are outputs you expect to have by the end of
a project. They can be anything if they are related to the project and there can be more than
one deliverable if needed. There is a difference between deliverables, project objectives, and
project milestones and they are often confused with one another. Project objectives help set
your deliverables and are much broader than deliverables. Project milestones are checkpoints
or building blocks throughout your project. If an example deliverable was to bake a cake, the
project objective would be to buy and gather the ingredients for the cake while project
milestone would be setting the timer to make sure the cake is in the oven for the right amount
of time. There are two kinds of deliverables: external and internal. External is anything that will
help you maintain your customer base while internal is anything that benefits your company.
The article then gives five tips on managing and tracking deliverables. First, clearly define
deliverables by figuring out what the project is trying to accomplish and whether deliverables
should be internal or external. Next, share the deliverables with stakeholders so everyone is on
board and on the same page in terms of the project. Third, coordinate work on a project
management software. This can be Gantt charts or a program such as MS Project. After that,
keep your team up to date with status reports whether they be weekly or biweekly. Lastly,
measure the amount of success after you’ve achieved all your deliverables. This article was
informative and was an important topic to understand as our group will be dealing with
deliverables for the remainder of our project. Deliverables were a bit confusing to tell apart
from goals, milestones, and objectives, so this article really put it into perspective and helped
me understand it. I think that the tips the article gave were helpful and our team will keep that
in the back of our minds as we work on the project.
Overall, I would recommend this article for
my team, and it was very informative about the importance of deliverables and how they fit into
the project management process.
Article Reference:
https://asana.com/resources/what-are-project-deliverables
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