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Clearly Stated and Understood Project Objectives

February 25, 2009 | Author: PM Hut | Filed under: Project Management Best Practices, Team Building

Clearly Stated and Understood Project Objectives (#3 in the series Requirements for an Effective Project Team and for Excellent Teamwork)
By Dr.Russell Archibald

The basic project objectives will usually be known prior to identifying the project team members. However, for effective teamwork, experience has demonstrated that a team effort is required to clarify, expand on, and quantify these initial project objectives, with input as appropriate from the project customer, to produce a statement of objectives that all members of the team understand, accept and are committed to. Hastings et. al.¹ point out that teams must be aware that there are multiple and often conflicting sets of expectations about their performance on the project, including expectations from outside the project, within the team, and from each individual team member.

¹ Hastings, Colin, Peter Bixby and Rani Chaudhry-Lawton, The Superteam Solution, University Associates, San Diego, 1987, 32-42.

Dr. Russell D. Archibald, PhD (Hon), MSc, Fellow PMI and APM/IPMA, PMP, is one of the six founding members of the Project Management Institute. Now semi-retired, he has many years of management experience in engineering and operations with a variety of major US corporations in Europe and South America as well as the US. He has made major contributions to the understanding of project management, is author of the best selling 2003 book “Managing High-Technology Programs and Projects” (published also in Russian, Chinese, and Italian), has trained more than a thousand program and project managers and project specialists around the world, and has consulted in project management to clients in 14 countries on 4 continents. E-mail: russell_archibald@yahoo.com. Website: www.russarchibald.com.

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