The Schedule Challenges Behind Manufacturing Projects
Project Schedule Challenges exist in every type of project, but manufacturing efforts bring with them some unique risks and obstacles. Outside influences and unexpected developments
Our proprietary Duration-Driven® Methodology is what distinguishes us from other companies.
It is the foundation of our success and essential to the continuing success of all the projects we support.
In this e-book, we’ll analyze the top ERP implementation obstacles and explore solutions to overcome these hurdles and move your project towards a successful completion.
PMAlliance provides immediate project and portfolio management solutions that can transform the way your company manages projects, enabling you to achieve consistently successful results.
A trio of industry-leading insurance subsidiary firms relied on PMAlliance to apply our proven portfolio management methodology to gain control over their existing projects and ensure they could meet upcoming compliance deadlines.
Challenges:
PMAlliance has been serving clients for 20 years. Our dedication to our client’s success remains our top priority and is what sets us apart. Your success is our success. Our proprietary methodology can be applied to any project in any industry.
A manufacturing company asked PMAlliance to redirect its efforts to implement new strategic projects that would increase sales and profitability. The project teams faced several significant challenges, including project plans without realistic scheduling or resource allocation, how to integrate the new projects with day-to-day tasks, and inadequate reporting to the project’s stakeholders.
Challenges:
Our mission is to partner with our clients to deliver a flexible combination of services that are tailored to their needs. PMAlliance uses a team of highly experienced and certified professionals to provide project management consulting, project management training and project portfolio management (PPM) services
In this e-book, we’ll analyze the top ERP implementation obstacles and explore solutions to overcome these hurdles and move your project towards a successful completion.
Our proprietary Duration-Driven® Methodology is what distinguishes us from other companies.
It is the foundation of our success and essential to the continuing success of all the projects we support.
In this e-book, we’ll analyze the top ERP implementation obstacles and explore solutions to overcome these hurdles and move your project towards a successful completion.
PMAlliance provides immediate project and portfolio management solutions that can transform the way your company manages projects, enabling you to achieve consistently successful results.
A trio of industry-leading insurance subsidiary firms relied on PMAlliance to apply our proven portfolio management methodology to gain control over their existing projects and ensure they could meet upcoming compliance deadlines.
Challenges:
PMAlliance has been serving clients for 20 years. Our dedication to our client’s success remains our top priority and is what sets us apart. Your success is our success. Our proprietary methodology can be applied to any project in any industry.
A manufacturing company asked PMAlliance to redirect its efforts to implement new strategic projects that would increase sales and profitability. The project teams faced several significant challenges, including project plans without realistic scheduling or resource allocation, how to integrate the new projects with day-to-day tasks, and inadequate reporting to the project’s stakeholders.
Challenges:
Our mission is to partner with our clients to deliver a flexible combination of services that are tailored to their needs. PMAlliance uses a team of highly experienced and certified professionals to provide project management consulting, project management training and project portfolio management (PPM) services
In this e-book, we’ll analyze the top ERP implementation obstacles and explore solutions to overcome these hurdles and move your project towards a successful completion.
Project Schedule Challenges exist in every type of project, but manufacturing efforts bring with them some unique risks and obstacles. Outside influences and unexpected developments
There are many potential challenges hiding within manufacturing projects. Without the right kind of planning and preparation, issues can crop up with little warning and cause Project Teams to compensate by cutting corners, either in the level of work being performed, the materials used, or even in the overall scope of the project.
Teams tasked with executing manufacturing projects have a lot on their plates. To get things underway as soon as possible, it can be tempting to skip over the development of a work breakdown structure and go right to carrying out tasks. But any perceived time savings gained by avoiding this step will quickly come back to haunt PMs, often in the form of delays, critical activity conflicts, and tasks left uncompleted.
Project schedules are rarely static. Instead, they begin evolving as soon as the team gets to work. Status reports coming in from the field, issues such as material and equipment delivery timing, and labor availability will all impact the schedule throughout the project’s lifecycle.
Complex projects often have more than one critical path, and in order for the project to reach a successful completion, each of these paths must be carefully managed. Even if the primary path is achieved, a lack of progress on any of the follow-on paths could doom the project to failure in the long run.
Teams that execute these challenging projects need to be mindful of what it takes to manage multiple layers of requirements and actions. A strong awareness of all the paths that make up a project is critical if the Project Team wants to ensure that nothing falls behind schedule or drops off the radar.
If your center of excellence is facing a can’t-fail project with multiple paths, it’s important to understand the risks that exists and where opportunities for success can be found.
Information is one of the core pillars underpinning every successful project. With the evolution of technology and more compute power available than ever before, there’s little reason centers of excellence should continue to rely on data that may be days or even weeks old when it comes to identifying potential issues, forecasting activity schedules, making strategic decisions, and pouncing on opportunities in the marketplace.
A robust project management methodology enables the team to access the kind of real-time status updates that are critical to success. If your Project Team hasn’t yet prioritized the use of real-time data, consider how it could improve the landscape for team members, executives, and the other stakeholders involved in the effort.
Strong communication skills are a must for any project manager. But when it comes to planning and executing projects in the highly demanding power plant environment, the ability to craft, plan for, and oversee communication efforts moves to the top of the priority ladder. Tackling these unique challenges requires experience and expertise.
Executive groups and internal project team members are often unsure what it means to partner with an outside project management firm. There may be concerns about job stability for Project Team staff or the potential for damage to the team’s reputation. Some people worry about the logistics of working with an external expert and how it might contribute to a difficult environment, where workloads, time pressures, and stress levels are already high.
These are reasonable concerns but they’re typically based on the unknown. They don’t reflect the reality of partnering with an experienced outside consultancy. We’ve compiled some of the most common fears we hear from potential clients and balanced them against the facts of how a relationship with an external expert functions in the real world.
If your organization is considering an external consultancy but fear is holding you back, see how a partnership with an outside project management expert really works.
Several strategies can be deployed to help Project Teams avoid lapsing into panic when the pressure mounts, whether it’s because of an emergent problem or because there simply seems to be too much to do. Knowing where to draw the line is key when balancing stress levels.
Project teams often partner with outside consultancies for a finite period of time, whether it’s to plan and execute a few specific projects or to