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Project Controlling And Monitoring - Resolving Project Problems
November 28, 2008 | Author: PM Hut | Filed under: Project Management Best Practices, Project Management for Beginners
Project Controlling And Monitoring - Resolving Project Problems (#18 in the Hut A Quick Guide to Project Management)
By Manjeet Singh
Every project has its share of problems, which can be classified into the following categories:
- People: your team lacks skills required to accomplish the project activities correctly. In this case, consider the following:
- Train your people if your project’s schedule and budget allows for it. Ideally such training requirements should be identified and factored into your project plan when you were selecting project team members.
- Consider calling in an outside consultant or vendor.
- Your project is falling behind schedule:
- Review the priorities of tasks and see if all of them are really necessary.
- Do not accept additional tasks. This is easier said than done, but there are times when you have to say NO.
- Project costs are exceeding the established budget:
- Regularly monitor costs throughout the project so that you are aware of any potential cost overruns as soon as possible.
- The scope of the project keeps changing (see the section “Controlling change”).
- The causes of many project problems are as follows:
- Poor scoping – the scope and objectives of the project are vague. Maybe some of the stakeholders never really read the scope requirements.
- Poor planning – activities are unclear, the processes are not well-documented, risks have not been well identified and prepared for, the project manager lacks experience, ineffective project communications, and so on.
Next in the Hut A Quick Guide to Project Management:
Project Controlling And Monitoring - Controlling Change
Previously in the Hut A Quick Guide to Project Management:
Project Controlling And Monitoring - Resolving Project Conflicts
Manjeet Singh has over 17 years of experience acquired in a wide variety of industries with a focus on project and program management at Software Makers and Global IT Services companies throughout the world. Manjeet has an Executive MBA from the HEC Management School, and is the author of the website www.projectminds.com that provides a free guide to project management, and offers other project management-related resources.
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[...] Project Controlling And Monitoring - Resolving Project Problems [...]
In a sudamerican Oil company, the Eng&Ctrl Management developed a system for risk evaluation. A 3 days meet to develop a document with :
Schedule (your 4th) with P3 (previous designed), colored by the technicals experts (your 1st)
Cost (your 3th) with Excel, colored by an estimating expert due to Technicals experts (1st)
Then we used the Montecarlo method, separatly.
The reason, our Engs. aren’t costs experts.
NHM