A well-defined project is a project with the highest potential for success completion. Unfortunately, the project definition step is one that is often neglected and therefore the cause of most project problems. Defining a project well means to clearly explain what you want to do, how you want to do it, what time frame you want it to be done in, within what budget and dependent upon which well- defined constraints.
A project is a set of documents that usually consists of a Project description, a Project, Tasks, Deliverables, Risks documents and so on. To define a project using Geniusproject, at a minimum the "Project description" must be created.
There are several ways to create a project.
Create a project using the Project with Wizard. It is intended to streamline the project creation process. The project leader uses a single interface to fill in the main project data.
Create a project the Project without a Wizard. This is a fast and pure way to simply create an empty project description.
Create a Project using a Project template. This is a powerful way to inherit a predefined project structure including your best practices. See "Project templates" for a better understanding of this feature.
Copy a project that already exists.
Promote a "Project request" into a "Project description" in a "Projects" database. See the "Project request" chapter for more information.
Promote an "Assignment" into a new project. This is a useful feature when a task assigned to someone has to be managed as a project by this resource, because of its complexity.
Using Geniusproject’s "Project wizard" will always create at least the following three records:
The "Project description", containing the most important project information. It is also commonly referred to as the "Project charter".
The Project plan, a Gantt chart to plan the project.
The project budget to define allocated financial resources, and depending on the setup and usage, also the expected income.
All those elements will be defined in details below.