3 Ways to Cope When Your Project Goes Off The Rails

When your project is sliding sideways, you need your project stakeholders clients, customers, sponsor to work with you to help put things right. You’ll investigate what sort of communication works best for them, and you’ll be tailoring it to ways that you think will work best for them. It’s not enough to just manage our teams during challenging project situations, if we want to be successful and more importantly help our teams be successful. Our first job as project managers is to try to steer the project back on course if it feels recoverable.

Key Takeaways:

  • If I’m honest it has been a while since I’ve worked on a project that has gone totally off the rails. We’ve had little disasters here and there.
  • What matters is whether it feels as if your project is under control and whether your stakeholders believe it is under control.
  • Focusing on other people instead of the solution to the problem at hand only leads to additional conflict and away from a problem’s resolution,” he went on.

“We’ve had little disasters here and there. Perhaps experience helps me frame and deal with these as not the end of the world but rather a problem to be got around.”

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