Understand best practices based on network mapping

Figure 1: Network mapping

Abstract

Project management has grown, from something that some companies uses to some extend when they operate their businesses, to something that all company uses. But as it is a growing business model to use, companies seems to to find the best way to manage projects to be challenging. Project can be small, simple and unpaid projects to big, complex and expensive projects. But even though all kind of materials exists on what the best techniques, process and methods for project management are, no general “best practice” exists. This wiki will describe how project management practices can be visualised as a network and how network mapping can be used as a tool to determine “best practices of project management”.

Figure 2: Method

Best Practices

A best practise of project management are set of general techniques, processes and methods that more effective can give you the desired outcomes of a project than others. But moreover it is also a standardised tool that repeatedly has been proven as the best standard to be used, independent on project type, size etc. Theory says that there are four main reasons to capturing best practices

1) Improve efficiency

2) Improve effectiveness

3) Standardisations

4) Consistency

One or more of these definitions should be recognised when a company look for there for there best practices.

Several standards as PMI, ISO and PRINCE2 has tried to create guidelines for there best practices of project management. They have created a set of tools that they see as the best way