Project Management

Project management is the practice of initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria at the specified time.

The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the project goals within the given constraints.

This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process. The primary constraints are scope, time, quality and budget. The secondary - and more ambitious - challenge is to optimize the allocation of necessary inputs and apply them to meet pre-defined objectives. The object of project management is to produce a complete project which complies with the client's requirements. In many cases, the object of project management is also to shape or reform the client's brief in order to feasibly be able to address the client's requirements. Once the client's objectives are clearly established they should impact on all decisions made by other people involved in the project - project managers, designers, contractors, sub-contractors, etc. If the project management objectives are ill-defined or too tightly prescribed, it will have a detrimental effect on decision making.

ASCEND International Limited manages projects to provide optimum solutions by following:

• Needs assessment
• Appraisal
• Baseline studies
• Technical analysis and advice
• Program design and development
• Program implementation
• In-depth monitoring
• Impact assessment and evaluation
• Conducting financial and system audits