“Only Those Who Dare To Fail Greatly Can Ever Achieve Greatly”
-Robert Kennedy
Mistakes are the common thing we commit in Daily life, behind every common mistake, there is a lesson to learned and the same mistake shouldn’t repeat in future. In a similar way, the Organization has been through the mistakes at the beginning stage. Plus a set of common mistakes that the project management team member commits.
Repeating the mistake will not be fair to the organization or project. Before committing it twice ask yourself the probable outcomes and risks of a certain action. At certain Stage Project Management, mistakes are hard to control, but the people who involved feel guilty to do the same. While Project Manager commits mistakes it may directly affect the project, Get delay, and at a certain point, there is a chance to project failure.
Here is the key feature to avoid the common mistakes while Managing the project
- Appointing the right person to Manage the project
The right person at right platform helps the organization to get expected results in a project.The company hires the Project Manager who is experienced can expect the possibility of success and It’s better to appoint the most qualified person to manage the project. Best Example: In cricket Test player is fit to play Test matches Instead if he plays T20 cricket the game results may change(team needs to bear the loss).
- Good communication with Stakeholders and Project team
Communication is the essential part or body of the project. In order, to make the project successful you need to keep all the communication channel open with live updates on projects status, risk, development, issues.
- Exact Estimation of Budget and Time
Budget and time is base for the project. Starting the project with all kind of resources from the stage of planning to completion, obtaining the guidance from experts who are worked on those project and take a bottom-up planning approach to reach reasonable estimates for the project.
- Work together to Get Desired Output
It is not the good sign for the project manager to work individually and take decision accordingly. Ignoring the suggestions and ideas may lead the failure of the project. Instead, Project Manager can work with the team in order to face the challenges and eliminate difficulties involved in the project.
- Project initiation
The proper scheduling leads the project to success path. Project initiation (describing) is the important track, where essential decisions and flowchart of the project is created. It is important that everyone on the team should be clear about project goals, aims, and objectives. All the member of the team needs to be clear about their roles, responsibilities, significant project milestones and deadline dates.
- Following the process
Many projects start with the high expectation but they halt for months and years without delivery. It’s not about they are not performing, it’s about they don’t have a clear procedure to follow. It is essential to know in which section the change required along with the key milestones.
Conclusion
These project management mistakes are common that sometimes it’s easy to recall them. There is a certain mistake that can affect your project, they are all mistakes that are easily avoided by awareness, good planning, and communication.