Tag Archive: Project manager

Compost management

Projects a like the compost heap in your garden. They need the right ingredients, the right management to produce the right outputs.

Digging a hole

Fear can inhibit project managers and project teams alike when challenged with a project management issue. This can allow project issues to fester and create bigger holes or problems later. Better to create a climate that allows for issues to be dealt with quickly.

Expectation Management

As part of commencing a project, a project communications strategy is a key component to get agreed with the client. This will prevent unnecessary communication and questioning by the client which distracts both the project manager and the project team from performing their roles effectively.

Does one size fit all?

Project management methodologies are excellent at giving a tool for the project manager to use to deliver a project. But methodologies can be incorrectly applied to the detriment of a project. They should be adapted and changed to ensure that they are a tool for success rather than an inhibitor. It is more important for a project manager to understand the basic delivery fundamentals and then to apply the correct methodology for that project over these.

Keep control of the weeds

Project issues always arise. How they are handled will determine whether they come up again or are dealt with once and for all. It is important to deal with the root cause of the issues rather than merely the symtoms.

The Right Stuff

Having the correct project resources is imperative to ensuring success in a project. Often businesses can be pushed to offer starting a project before all of the right people are in place, but this will only damage the end result. Surely its better to wait until all project resources are in place prior to starting.

The unknowns!

Effective project management will enable a project manager to mitigate against most risks that are likely to occur. But there are sometimes no answers to be found for potential issues. These project management issues still need to be tracked in the same way as conventional risks and treated in the same manner also.