3 Tips To Guarantee Project Success And Quality Every Time!

Three important techniques are involved, based on my experience and what I’ve understood as project manager certification holder.

1)      Clearly defining what has to be done from the outset.

Any interaction or endeavour requires careful planning. A project can be killed virtually before it begins if adequate planning time is not included. Spend enough effort – and intend to spend enough time – early in the project to adequately record the work to be done before it begins. This will result in two outcomes.

·         You may have another deliverable - the project plan or statement of work - for which you may bill, earning extra project money for the business.

·         You'll get formal confirmation from your customer that you're on the same page, and you'll know you're focusing on the 'correct' issues rather than merely symptoms of another problem.

Once you've documented the work to be done, use a project management software solution like Project Insight to create a project plan with the exact activities that will be required to finish the project and track all progress through this schedule.

2)      Assist the project by utilising your project management office.

As understood in the project manager certification course, use your project management office (PMO) to the maximum extent possible to assist the project, the project manager, the team, and the client. If anything is impeding a project's progress and slowing service to a project client, the PMO should work effectively on that project's behalf to remove roadblocks, bring extra necessary resources to the project – even temporarily, if necessary – or demonstrate assistance to guarantee the project client maintains faith in the project manager and delivery organization's capacity to effectively deliver on the project's end solution.

3)      Maintain weekly project updates, regardless of how slowly the project is going.

Regardless of its size, the project should be managed as if it were a formal project. To document the project schedule, use your preferred online project management software solution. The project might be small and just require a few tasks, or it could be enormous and involve a whole team on both sides. Plan to deliver a weekly update in a uniform manner at the very least. For extremely minor projects, it may just be an email template that you fill out each week with progress information, however for bigger and more prominent projects, it would most likely be a fairly formal status report and weekly formal status call. The trick is to accomplish it and see it through. Never let yourself get complacent. Because some encounters continue forward with little observable progress over a period of time.

As I learned when preparing for PMP and CAPM Certification, you don't want the client to be confused about what's going on since it leads to nothing good. Put something in front of that customer every week that indicates what you're working on, how far you and your team have come, and any challenges you're dealing with. Even better, if you can find some action item to include in that report, you'll be engaging them, which is typically a positive thing. And don't forget to update project progress in the project schedule using your web-based project management software application, and provide the client a copy of that amended schedule every week during the engagement.