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How to effectively manage your project

Business December 4, 2019 by Nishitha

Simplicity is the key to practical and effective project management. Often planning and monitoring take a backseat when you’re rushing to execute and report results. If you plan out your work in advance, you can save time and effort that goes into executing tasks in the eleventh hour.

Don’t worry! I’m enumerating a few simple steps to start and execute your project effectively so that you end up delivering quality work on time.

1. Define your project goals

First things first. To ensure you’re successful in executing all your tasks, you need to define your project goals. The identification of the goals will help you in drawing a road map. To reach there, you need to know:

Who your stakeholders are?

A project becomes successful only when all the needs of the stakeholders are met. Stakeholders are those people who are directly or indirectly affected by the project. Identifying who your stakeholders are may need research, but it’ll be worth the effort as you’ll be able to strike out a list of people who’re involved with the end result. In a project, stakeholders could be a customer who wants the finished project, a project sponsor, or a project manager.

What are their needs?

With a list of stakeholders by your side, you can work on identifying their needs. At every stage of the project, stakeholders will have a different set of requirements. Hence, it is essential to cater to their needs effectively at every stage of project development.

2. Break down your project into a list of deliverables

Jot down all the deliverables or tasks that have to be assigned to specific team members on deadlines. Ensure to understand and document each deliverable. If you’re working for the third party, make sure to have your deliverables correctly laid so that you don’t end up delivering the project.

3. Form a team and talk to them about the project

Once you’ve defined the project goals and drawn the roadmap, the next step is to form a team. Identify a project manager, project planner, and team members who are having the required expertise. Delegate work with a sense of ownership and freedom. Hold a kickstart meeting with your team and make them aware of the agenda. Ask them what they think about the project and the deliverables. You can also use different project management softwares to ensure that all your team members are on the same page. When you employ the right approach, you’ll win half battle, just like that!

4. Identify risks

To execute a project successfully, it is crucial to define the risks involved. Think of all the crisis like situation – what will you do if something takes longer than expected? What if the overall project costs much more than what you estimated? What if there is an improper flow of information?

In all such situations, if you don’t have a specific course of action, you’ll undoubtedly be doomed. Sit with your team and draw a risk mitigation plan. Draw a simple log of work that helps to identify the risk involved and how can you mitigate it. Trust me; a risk mitigation plan saves you from last-minute surprises.

Wrapping Up

The secret to effective project management and execution lies in staying organized and effectively communicating with your colleagues. It also involves timely decision-making capability to drive the project on the right path. Define project goals, divide the project into milestones, and work enthusiastically towards them. Take key learning from the project before closing and utilize them in the forthcoming ones. All the best!

Author Bio

This is Sharon Winget, Staff Writer with GoodFirms, a review and rating platform of top IT companies & software. A tech geek at heart, I firmly believe technology can transform societies. I enjoy blogging about web design, email marketing, and content marketing.

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I am done with my Physiotherapy Graduation. And I always try to share Health and technology tips with people. Apart from Physiotherapy and being a tech savvy, I do explore more on Technology side and I keep sharing my findings with wider audience.

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