Lack of Leadership
While project management skills ensure that processes work effectively, leadership skills provide the driving force that creates project success. Get the results you expect by inspiring and motivating your team.
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Lack of Support from Stakeholders or Senior Management
Getting—and maintaining—support for your project is critical to avoiding project roadblocks, U-turns and dead ends. Keep your projects moving forward by gaining increased support from your stakeholders.
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Poor Communication
Communication is often cited as a key to why projects succeed or fail. It is critical that you use clear and effective communication to share your vision and strategies as a leader in order to energize your team and influence critical stakeholders.
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Competing, Shifting or Unclear Organizational Objectives
Enable project and team success by aligning projects with the organization's strategic direction. Prevent project cancellation or underfunding by having a clear understanding of how your project meets current organizational goals.
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Vague User Input and Insufficient Requirements Gathering
Gathering the right information from your stakeholders is critical to the success of any project. This is the best way to ensure that you end up delivering what your users asked for.
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Poor Project Planning
Nothing guarantees project success more than proper up-front planning. Stakeholder support, proper estimates, and adequate scope control are just some of the positive outcomes that result when the project manager properly plans.
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Ineffective Estimating, Scheduling and Budgeting
Critical to successful project planning are accurate estimates, schedules and budgets. You won't miss the warning signs that your project is in trouble if you adhere to your plans throughout the project life cycle.
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Unforeseen Project Risks and Lack of Contingency Planning
The risk-aware project manager is diligent about identifying the future events that may impede the project and taking corrective action before disaster strikes. Keep your projects out of the danger zone by carefully evaluating, prioritizing and controlling potential risks.
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Stretched and Limited Resources
During tough economic climates, it's likely that you are being asked to do more with less. It takes a project manager with creative problem-solving skills to make the most of stretched resources.
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Inconsistent Project Methodology
Project management best practices offer universal guidelines that provide a blueprint for project success. It's the successful project manager who learns from past project mistakes.
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