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Business cases should be written for any change project that is being implemented within your business. The temptation can be to implement without assessing all the possible impacts but this will inevitably cost the business more in the long run. Business cases protect against this.
Sometimes, even when things are going well with our project delivery, we change the way that we deliver the projects to try and perhaps gain some extra margin. By changing what works, we can end up making things worse,not better!
Projects never run in a completely linear manner, even if they are planned to do so. This is especially true when operational resources are required for project delivery. Planning of their time is critical and needs to be done correctly at project inception. If done correctly, the project will succeed. If not, it won’t hit it’s dates.
It is important for businesses to remain aware of their operational landscape and to adapt and change as needed to survive. Often business managers can continue to operate tried and tested methods that worked in the past but may not be relevant to today.
The saying is that there is no “I” in team. But this is not the case. There is an I in every team i.e. every project team member. However, it is important to get those “I’s” working together as a cohesive unit and that is where the project manager comes in. By ensuring the team works well together, the project will go more smoothly. Without cohesion, the project will no succeed.
When implementing a project in your business, it is important to understand the impact of that project on other areas of the business apart from the expected recipients. These impacts must be assessed with equal importance to ensure the project business case is not negated through costly impacts on other areas of the business.
We must all learn lessons from prior projects in order to protect and then grow our project profit margins. Without this learning, maring will never increase that can threaten the very existence of the business itself.
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