When delivering projects, there are both direct project costs and indirect costs i.e. the costs of running the business to backup the delivery of those projects. A factor for operational costs must be included in all projects that are being delivered in order to understand their overall impact on business profitability.

In smaller businesses, the project manager is quite often also the business owner or operational manager. The skills for both are quite different. So how does the operational manager try to ensure project success? Eight helpful hints on how to meet those challenges and come out ahead.

Measuring the success of projects from a business perspective is just as important as measuring the success of otherwise of an individual project. Business managers need to consider what they want to measure out of all their projects and to make sure they can do so accurately. This will help save time and money in their business and become more profitable.