How to make the project progress toward the established goals? How can we make the project a final success? To address these two problems, I think every project manager will have his own opinions. Based on the author's project management experience, The following summarizes 15 main points of interest that contribute to the sound progress of the project and the success of the project, and tries to share their experiences with the project managers.
1. Project Objectives
The goal is the aviation mark of action, so the importance of the goal to the project is self-evident.
A project manager who does not focus on the project objectives can only bring the project into failure. Practice has proved and continues to prove that any action against the target will be futile. Therefore, the project manager must keep the project objectives in the "heart" and pay attention to them from time to time.
2. Scope of the project
"Project scope is actually a ing of our work content", and the project scope also determines the workload.
If the project manager does not have a clear grasp of the scope of the project and has reasonable control over the scope of the project, some of the work carried out by the project team is likely to be ineffective, and the result can only be financial loss.
3. Project Plan
"Planning is a program of action", and the importance of the project plan is well known to all.
The project manager should not only pay attention to the formulation of the project plan, but also the implementation of the project plan. The plan can make our thoughts concrete and reflect what we want to do, when to do, who to do, and how to do it. Therefore, any action not guided by the project plan will be "disorganized ", it even brings huge risks to the project.
4. Project Quality
"Quality is the life of a project", and a project without quality is undoubtedly a failed project. Therefore, the project manager must always pay attention to various activities closely related to the project quality.
5. Project Progress
"Progress is often efficiency". projects, especially commercial projects, often determine their market value. Therefore, the project manager must pay close attention to the project progress while paying attention to the project quality.
6. Project Cost
"Capital is the lifeblood of a normal project." A project with out-of-control costs or excessive costs will face a great risk of project maintenance.
7. Project Risks
"Project risks are the only uncertainties that affect the smooth development and final success of the project ". The project manager should always pay attention to the status of project risks, prepare the plan to be "prepared", and eliminate the environment and conditions for adverse risks.
8. Project Stakeholders
"Balancing the expectations of project stakeholders is the foundation for the project to be recognized by all parties." A project manager cannot balance and meet the expectations of project stakeholders, in the project development process, we will "Step by Step ".
9. Target Users
Although the target users belong to the project stakeholders, the target users are different from other project stakeholders because they are the end users of the project results. Target User features (such as job position and capability level) to a large extent, it determines the development methods required by the project and the display of project results (such as developing a computer application system, if the user's computer operation level is low, the system design should be as simple, easy to learn, and easy to operate as possible ).
10. Project Team
The project team mentioned here mainly refers to the project team led by the Project Manager.
"The project team is the direct creator of the project results", and the efficiency of the project team directly determines the project efficiency. Therefore, the project manager needs to be very concerned with project team members (including project team building and performance evaluation ).
11. project implementation and operation environment
"The project implementation and running environment not only determine the implementation strategy of the project, but also largely determine the development technology and mode required by the project" (such as developing a computer application system, the system running environment determines the development technology that the system may adopt to a certain extent ).
12. Output Review
"Review is one of the most effective and timely ways to discover a Problem." A large number of outputs will certainly bring huge obstacles and risks to subsequent work. Therefore, the project manager must pay attention to the review of the project outputs, especially the key deliverables, and never think that the review is a "pass" event. It is a dispensable activity.
13. Defects
"Defects are the project's time bomb". If the defects are eliminated, they are equivalent to eliminating the time bomb and security risks. Therefore, the project manager must pay attention to all kinds of defects found during the project progress, so as to discover more and eliminate them early.
14. User Problems
"Whether a user problem is effectively solved directly determines the degree to which the user cooperates with the project and the final acceptance of the project result ". Therefore, the user problem cannot be ignored by the Project Manager.
15. Milestone Summary
"Conclusion is the best way to discover and avoid the problem from happening again. It is a favorable time to extract experience and develop experience ". The project manager should not only pay attention to the summary of the phases in progress, but also the project summary after the completion of the project, because the project summary provides good experience for the next project.
There are still many issues that need to be paid attention to in project management. The above only summarizes 15 aspects based on the author's experience. Due to the diversity of projects, the main focus of each project is also different, which requires us to decide and analyze the specific situation and be flexible based on our own and others' experience.
Transferred from: project management Alliance
