Our project managers use PMBOK ® as the guiding tool to ensure that all aspects of project management are appropriately defined and controlled.

The first challenge of project management is ensuring that a project is delivered within the defined constraints. The second, more ambitious challenge is the optimized allocation and integration of resources to meet those pre-defined objectives.

At ICM, our PMs effectively utilize the resources and knowledge base to meet the agreed upon objectives. Our continuous improvement in the activities such as status reporting, usage of tools and tracking mechanism constantly improves our productivity thus providing a better value for money for our customers.

ICM's Project Management is composed of several activities to plan, execute, monitor, control and close projects are:

	Project Planning
	Scope Definition / Change Management
	Estimation / Time Management
	Resource Management
	Organizing the work / WBS
	Communication Management / Client Management
	Quality Management
	Issues Management
	Cost Management
	Risk Management

Project Management artifacts

All successful projects adequately document objectives and deliverables. These documents are a mechanism to align sponsors, clients, and project team's expectations. At ICM, depending on the size of projects, the following items are documented:

	Contract
	Scope Statement - Statement of Work - Requirements Statement
	Project Management Plan / Project Initiation Document
	Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
	Change Control Plan - Change management processes
	Risk Management Plan - Identify risks and mitigation plans
	Communications Plan - Status reports, conference calls, chats, emails, escalation processes, etc.
	Governance Model - Appropriate SDLC model to adhere to for the project and various steps involved in such a model
	Risk Register - Risks encountered
	Issue Log - Issue Resolution Register to track and handle all the issues
	Resource Management Plan - Includes the roles and responsibilities, training needs, reporting structure, etc.
	Project Schedules - Typically done using MS-Project
	Status Reports - Identify variances, completed tasks, potential slippages, % complete, etc.
	Traceability matrix - Tracking use cases from requirements through delivery
	Database of risks - database of past project risks incurred and the correction and prevention steps taken
	Database of lessons learned - database of past projects - things that went especially well which gets incorporated in as part of our best practices, challenges faced and how they were resolved to use as guide for future projects