Tag: project success

  • Improving Your Chances of Project Success

    Improving Your Chances of Project Success

      What are the key aspects to focus on for a project manager to ensure consistently successful projects? Perhaps the most important area is that of Risk Management. Of course, selecting a competent team is also important, as are the right sort of skills, experience and training – even the most junior members of the…

  • What Factors Contribute to a Successful Project?

    What Factors Contribute to a Successful Project?

      Factors that contribute to project success can be broadly categorised into five separate groups: 1. The project manager Simply employing a professional and experienced project manager will not guarantee the success of a project. Of course a project manager will be expected to have sufficient business and/or technical knowledge, have good communication, management and…

  • Top tips for successfully tackling a major project

    Top tips for successfully tackling a major project

    Space. In a nutshell, that’s what it boils down to. When somebody asks me how I manage to get things done when I have a busy family life, a full-time job and a myriad of other tasks that are vying for my time and attention… There is only one way to answer. Space. It is…

  • Measures of success: How do you know if you’re doing it right?

    Measures of success: How do you know if you’re doing it right?

    What is one of the most difficult things to measure, when it comes to project management (without looking at the title)? Success. It’s difficult because it is subjective; it means different things to different people, and changes depending on context.   But it is important to understand how the conclusion of a project, or even…

  • Is This Project A Success Or Not?

    Is This Project A Success Or Not?

    What happens when a project has been completed to schedule and more or less on-budget but the client is reluctant to sign-off the work and even more reluctant to pay for it? The final product meets the documented requirements so surely a project that is on-time, on-budget and on-scope must be a success. Aren’t those…

  • Project Success in Doubt

    So you have brought your project in on-budget, on-time and it meets the requirements as documented and approved by the stakeholders. But the end-users are not happy and do not consider the project to be successful. The business department for which the project was carried out will now only sign-off the project if a new…