Six Project Basics that YOU must never FORGET
- Care about your people
Tired, worn down, overworked team members will show in your projects daily rigor
Managers need to spend time with them to support, mentor them and celebrate the successes
Need continued professional development
**This allows them to enhance their personal and professional competence.
2. Don’t Abandon Processes and Methodologies
This helps ensure continuous improvement for best practices
Keeps all team members on the same page
Doing it the same way allows it to become measureable and monitored
3. Ensure Senior Managements Commitment
Instrumental in defining roles, responsibilities, communication needs within the organization
Cheerleaders for the team and major morale booster
4. Keep Your Communication Models Updated
Internal and External Models
These set expectations and identifies where/how people go to get informed
Example of internal: Bulletin board or SharePoint site
Example of external: Website page
5. Implement Tight Monitoring and Controlling Procedures
This allows project performance to be measured accurately and deviations can be assessed, corrected and prioritized.
You are going to want to do on-going periodic reviews are required to stay on top of this at each phase of the project
6. Document Lessons Learned and Best Practices
This helps ensure you are working with your successes and learning from your failures.
You must keep this up-to-date with the ever-changing project scope
This helps feed into your other basics above…people, processes, communication models, monitoring and controls to keep them all relevant.
Call to Action
I want you to…think about your current project you are working on. Review these 6 basics in the context of your project. Are you struggling in one or
more of the areas? A corrective action plan is required if so. This is the foundation of your project. It must be as strong as possible or your project will struggle and may even fail.
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