The project status meeting is a vital part of ensuring solid project communication. Like any meeting, a project status meeting needs to be run properly to avoid complacency and ineffectiveness.
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The project status meeting is a vital part of ensuring solid project communication. Like any meeting, a project status meeting needs to be run properly to avoid complacency and ineffectiveness.
Effective project management will ensure that project issues are dealt with quickly and efficiently. As managers though, sometimes it is worrisome to stick your head above the parapet when things are going wrong and the instinct is to try and fix something before “the boss finds out”. But is this really the best approach? What are the worst things that can happen?
Change in projects is inevitable, regardless of the field that your business is in. It is vital that as part of the project preparation process that you consider how you will handle change. If you have a robust process in place and agreed with the client, it will make it much easier to manage change when it occurs.
A project manager is responsible for making sure that every potentially impacted part of an organisation is aware of what is going on. This is particularly true during a “go-live” scenario. If roles and responsibilities are not discussed and defined, chaos can ensue.
Being prepared in advance can help mitigate the risk of problems arising while running a project. A trip that I took today highlighted the importance of being risk aware. The more we consider potentials risks, the greater the chance of delivering a project successfully.
Project management can be like the four seasons. At the beginning, it can be full of newness and a desire to succeed but this can become “Winter” like as the project loses its purpose or dynamic. These projects should be fixed or stopped. Opportunity should be sought rather than simply giving up and hoping the project will just go away.
Service businesses, when they run into trouble, have to cut back. Being staff intensive, the first and most obvious area for cut backs is staff. But staff take time to train and engage. When the business recovers, it may not be able to handle the growth before staff are re-hired or upskilled and this will lead to disappointed customers.
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