Thursday, November 6, 2008

It' S Vitally Important To Sound Out A Communication Scheme Before The Project Begins

Business.

Project management - you give me the feature creeps - the calibre of the project management you have integrated into your occupation or department can mean the difference between living on and booming in a very cut throat industry that you serve. It' s also very important to understand the concept of not over analysing a problem or being paralysed to a point where further action is not being fulfilled.


It' s very critical to understand the evolution of a project management lifecycle and avoid skirting or skipping important upfront issues from the outset. - a dreadful adversary to you in this case would be" feature creep" where individuals from the department keep changing their minds on requirements or have new ideas on better ones. Things such as that, as well as losing focus on the core objectives will usually result in project failure because a core ingredient or stage of the project is not able to move onward. Beware of feature creep as it will rear it' s ugly head at every step of every stage you come across of your project. Leadership in this examples is absolutely critical in order to prevent mischances, and total project disasters from occurring. It' s vitally important to sound out a communication scheme before the project begins. These usually are not only a waste of time, but a major, resources drain on employee morale and faith in the leadership of the business.


Make sure to sit down with the clients and interested parties during a set schedule and with set goals as well as a decided upon methodology to capture and organize requirements from everyone who has a stake in the project you are working on. - it goes without saying, this is not a very productive use of your time nor is it of theirs. Otherwise they will call you up every five minutes and give you new requirements or ask you to change existing ones. A solid big picture perspective of all the project needs has to be looked at before moving forward with the actual implementation. This due diligence will take up a bit more time in the beginning but will save lots of time, concerns, money, and potentially broken relationships down the road.

No comments: