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JPACE or Justify, Plan, Activate, Control and End it the right way is one of the many techniques or ways with which Project Managers can manage their projects effectively.

History

Early 1990s saw evolution of project management techniques followed for software development. Techniques like waterfall were used in the past but with the newer ways discovered, methods like JPACE are growing rapidly. Over time traditional heavyweight software development and project management techniques like waterfall have evolved into a number of lightweight software development frameworks like Agile aligning Scrum Teams and Kanban boards. Other methods which relate to JPACE is AGILE where customer feedback or stakeholder inputs are given more attention over other factors. Smaller yet faster work packages are executed in sprint based planning.

JPACE Values

Smaller but Faster work packages

Rapid collaboration

Customer Inputs

Ability to absorb Change

Quality Assurance and Feedback Closure

Overview

Justify stage

Creating Business Case and Presenting it to the stakeholders.

Plan stage

Defining, Making and getting Approval on the Project Plan.

Activate stage

Publicising information about project, Equipping or collecting all the required resources, Training all the resources for the project.

Control stage

Assigning / allocating the work packages to the hands on work, Motivate resources to remain consistent, Track progress and performance of project and Revise project roadmap as per evaluation.

End Project stage

Prepare Completion Reports, Turn Over Results and lastly Release Resources on the Project.

References

JPACE on Project Management