With COVID-19’s effects disrupting more organizations’ activities every day, some project teams are struggling to make the shift to working remotely. Maintaining strong connections internally as well as with stakeholders is critical for PMs to continue moving projects to a successful completion. No matter if you have one or two team members supporting your project…
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Build a Customer-Centric Project Team
March 19, 2020 by
The support of sponsors and stakeholders is a critical element in project success. Without strong participation by these groups, the project team may have difficulty getting the necessary resources and cooperation to execute even simple tasks. But with everything that goes into delivering consistent results and meeting the organization’s needs, the focus on long-term satisfaction…
Remote Project Management: 5 Tips to Get Started
March 17, 2020 by
As impacts from the coronavirus outbreak ripple across the business landscape, many organizations are moving portions of their operations to a more distributed work structure to maintain activities while minimizing face-to-face interactions. This could present challenges for project teams that aren’t already accustomed to working remotely with remote project management. If you’re having trouble juggling…
4 Reasons Project Stakeholder Feedback is Important
March 10, 2020 by
Executing a project successfully requires that all participants in the effort—from the project team to sponsors to end users—work together. Everyone needs to have a common set of expectations and be moving toward a common set of goals. The feedback loop is an integral part of building and maintaining that alignment from a project’s inception…
Get Control of Your Project Punch Lists
March 6, 2020 by
Punch lists are an important part of the project execution process. Closing the loop on these final tasks helps to ensure that your stakeholders are satisfied with your initiative’s outcome. Completing punch list items is also key to delivering the full value everyone expects from the project. However, between the volume of activities occurring in…
5 Reasons Project Sponsors Go Dark
March 2, 2020 by
Your project sponsors are key to getting initiatives approved, planned, and executed. Without them your project may not receive enough funding to become a reality, and even if it did there’s a chance you’d encounter some show-stopping obstacles along the way. Fortunately, sponsors are usually eager to help get a project off the ground and…
Why Post-Mortems Should Happen Before Your Project is Done
February 19, 2020 by
The name says it all—the project post-mortem is typically conducted after an initiative is complete. It’s when the team looks back across a project, gauging the effectiveness of their efforts during key phases and reviewing components that would have benefitted from a different approach. With hindsight, you may realize that applying a broader set of…
Why Project Teams Work Without a Master Plan
February 6, 2020 by
Though some teams wouldn’t consider starting a project without a workable and realistic master plan, other groups routinely begin executing tasks before their overall strategy has been finalized and communicated. For PMs wondering why a project team would start work before having a high-level plan in place, the reasons can often be traced to a…
Embracing the Omnichannel Movement in Project Management
January 28, 2020 by
Between continuous technology innovation and an increasingly global marketplace, many companies are rethinking their business strategies. Add in changing workforce and supply chain dynamics, and project teams are also taking a fresh look at the supporting processes they use to engage stakeholders and maintain strong connections across multi-discipline groups. Expectations around communications have changed in…
Are You Ready for Real-Time Project Updates?
January 22, 2020 by
Information is a key asset for project teams. It drives decisions at every level and enables PMs to not only mitigate risks and sidestep problems, it also gives them the insight to capitalize on opportunities and consistently achieve excellent results. But the turnaround time for team members to retrieve, analyze, and act on data has…
