GDPM - Goal Directed Project Management

GDPM is a management philosophy accompanied by a set of tools and principles for planning, organizing, leading and controlling projects. The method is characterized by its practical and “psychological” approach to both focusing a project group to reach common goals and on controlling the progress of each individual. The GDPM method allows project sponsors and team members to focus most of their attention and effort on project issues and not on project management methodologies and/or tools. GDPM's beauty is in its simplicit answering the three questions Why, What and How very precisely:

• Why! Project definition view: Clearly links the project to the intended organizational goals and the high level organizational standard principles and procedures for managing the project.
• What! Deliverables view: Milestones with relationships reflect the results on a macroscopic level. The milestone plan gives a stable total overview of the whole project with deadlines on one page! Roles are also made exceptionally clear for project sponsors and stakeholders.
• How! Activities view: Tasks and specific responsibilities are reflected in a simple responsibility matrix and empowers team members to make realistic estimates of effort and durations for the actual work needed to reach each milestone.