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How to Avoid this Pitfall

(Managing Projects blog 6 of 8)

Whenever something goes wrong in a project’s performance it is often blamed on “scope creep.” Scope creep has become such a familiar feature in project management that it is mostly accepted as the correct reason and even worse, being accepted as a fact of project life. The prevailing belief is that it cannot be helped, it is “beyond the PM’s control,” and therefore is part of the necessary evil in managing projects. Not True!!

Do you even know who they are and why they are important to you?

(Managing Projects blog 5 of 8)

It is a serious mistake to assume that all resources allocated to your project are equally motivated to see your project becoming a success. It could be possible that a critical resource does not have any insight or interest in your project whatsoever and they are one of the resources to deliver a critical component at a particular time.

There are two components important here. Firstly, you need to know who your resources are and you need to align them in an appropriate way. Secondly, you need to make sure you know who are your important resources that could make or break the success of your project. We will discuss the importance of both and what you can do to “arrange” this for your own project.

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't. 

(Managing Projects blog 4 of 8)

We normally say, “The devil lies in the detail” and that is the exact same impact if you are not being specific in what you do in project management or even more precisely when you are managing projects.

You don’t know what you don’t know is very true, especially if you are dealing with complex issues and relationships in project management. So, when managing a project you will rely heavily on factual and exact verified information, otherwise you would be doomed to failure. We suggest very specific process questions you could ask that would help you to derive explicit statements from staff, vendors and customers.

Why is this so difficult to get?

(Managing Projects blog 3 of 8)

Accountability is normally not fully understood and we’ve found in many cases this continues to be the situation for not having adequate accountabilities for project objectives and outcomes. There tends to be a misunderstanding between the terms accountability and responsibility.

...or be prepared to deal with a toxic fall-out!

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