Every project will vary slightly, depending on what you’re working on, what team you’re on, and how your team members like to collaborate.

The five main project phases that occur during the project management process:

• 1.Project Initiation:
  

  During the initiation phase, you’ll assemble your project team and identify your project scope.

• 2.Project Planning:
  

  Project planning is when you outline your project requirements and define what “project success” will look like. This project phase is critical to successful project management and hitting your project goals.

• 3.Project Execution:
  

  The majority of your project will be the executing phase this is the time you and your team will be working towards your project deliverables. During the executing phase, you’ll want to practice workload management, time management, and task management to make sure your team is aligned, on track, and not overwhelmed.

• 4.Project Performance:
  

  Reporting happens during and after the executing phase. During the project, reporting will help you course correct, collaborate, and increase cross-functional visibility into your work. Then, once your project is complete, you can report on how you did, and brainstorm ideas with project stakeholders on how to improve during future projects.

• 5.Project Closure:
  

  Once the project is done, take some time to debrief with project stakeholders in order to capture lessons learned. Depending on your team, you might do this as a project retrospective meeting, a project post mortem, or a project debrief.