Project Manager – Key principle for success
Posted on December 21, 2009
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Project Managers should focus on three project success areas; completing all project deliverables on time, within budget and with the quality acceptable to the stakeholders. These are broadly defined goals, which should be the team’s prime attention to achieve.
Project managers should agree upon the fact that planning is everything and is ongoing process; the most important activity is planning. It may be systematic, detailed and team planning which are the foundation for any project success. When the real-time events occur resulting into the change in the project, project managers updates their planning documents to reflect new changes. Hence planning and re-planning is the ongoing process for project managers.
Project managers should keep the team attention on project deliverables and deadlines as projects are finite activities with limited time, money, and other resources. They should check regular status, meetings, and reminders are essential.
Project Manager should identify standard ISD model to ensure the professional standards and best practices are followed in project cycle. To follow these standards should also be included in the project plans. These standards help to achieve quality product and help to minimize the rework. PM should not entertain any kind of shortcuts’ in the project especially when time and budget pressures.
Project Manager and its team should be on the same level of understanding of the finished deliverables of the project so that the team efforts are focused in the same direction.
Project deliverables should be evolved gradually at certain defined schedules. Project should be delivered in chunks, take incremental reviews and approval from stakeholders and maintain balanced evolution.
Project should require approvals and sign-off procedures after finalizing the deliverables and after the actual deliverables are delivered. There should be clear approval points followed by formal sign-up by stakeholders.
Project Managers should document business needs of the project along with the deliverables before starting upon the project. Project success has direct relation with thorough of the needs of project deliverables.
Project Managers must give stress doing right things in time in the first place. They should ensure top managers and stakeholders to deliver quality product in the total time spent.
Project Manager should equally get authority so as to responsibility. Project must have authority to acquire and coordinate resources, request and receive top managers’ cooperation and take relevant decisions which can impact the success of the project.
Stakeholders should be active participants helping out to define deliverables, review interim deliverables in time, and help to expedite project deliverables to target audience and required documentation.
Project managers should acquire the skillful team members to perform relevant task. Project managers should help valuable team members to protect them from outside interruptions. He should help them acquiring the tools and working conditions necessary to apply their skills.
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