It is essential that projects are planned appropriately (and realistically), and that they report on progress in an accurate and honest way.

The Project Sponsor is the project advocate and is responsible for ensuring the benefits are achieved and the project is viable at all times.

The responsibility matrix or RACI, is used to assign who in the organisation is responsible for each task.

Project risk management is a structured process of identifying and assessing risks, and then planning and implementing actions to respond to the risk.

Smartsheet is an online project management tool to support you with project plans, action plans, actions logs and risks/issues registers.

Project initiation and scoping is the first stage of the project management lifecycle.

Once the project mandate has been approved, the Project Manager can commence detailed planning of the project.

This stage is focused on the preparation and delivery of the project objectives.

The purpose of this phase is to handover the project to the business users and to close the project.

Stakeholder management comprises the identification, analysis, planning and implementation of actions designed to engage with stakeholders.