Project managers will be more successful if they work hard to avoid some common mistakes that most tend to make. The first mistake is forgetting the team. Engaging with stockholders is an important step in starting a new project. The second is lack of communication. Communication is the key to success, and lack of communication is the key to failure. It’s important to meet deadlines, but its also important to produce quality work. Not giving yourself enough time can greatly damage the quality of the project.
Key Takeaways:
- When you launch a project, it’s imperative to identify all the stakeholders, and make sure they’re all on board with your plans.
- If you don’t set up elementary communication channels and guidelines into place right at the beginning of the project, you can forget about results or completion. Make sure you do regular status checks, target reviews, and team temperature checks.
- You’re working with people, not machines; everyone has feelings, and everyone gets stressed out. Try and understand that if you act like a walking talking spreadsheet, these people aren’t really going to care about your problems (in this case, your project) either.
“Plan for quality. Set your quality standards at the beginning of the project and make sure these are both communicated to the team and agreed by the end users.”
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