Preventing Future Trouble
So you are well along in the project rescue process and things are moving in the right direction to ensure project remains healthy your three things to watch out for ensure you keep a close eye on the business relative to changes that may be occurring other going through a lot of change delay have a new manager with new ideas and expectations is the workload higher than normal other indicators that something is going on with the business are business personnel assigned to the team are no longer available and are available from the man of time client the business is changing your mind on what they need or want the business is not able to provide answers to questions asked of them or they seemed distracted and was interested in the project if the business changes your project is likely to be impacted your scope could change business personnel assigned to the project may need to be modified requirements might need to be we prioritise any overall objectives may need to be re-evaluated to keep a watchful eye on changes within the business to ensure the project remains in alignment with your customers business direction and goals the second thing to watch carefully as you know to rescue project is to ensure you have a place to document all the issues on your project this is typically called on issues like this is a great tool to assess your project health is issues are growing it's okay to have several issues if they are being quickly resolved watchful cleansing the issues that surface such as continual cost overruns or shortages and a particular type of skill when issues are not being resolved in a timely fashion of the same cause of issues resurfaces watch out moderately issues register weekly to ensure issues are being managed actively and quickly any issues are repairs to should be discussed with management for resolution leading issues linger on a rescue project is very dangerous and should trigger decisive action project troublespot is political power shifts as your project gets closer to delivering new projects are prophecies the reality of the New World will come to the forefront of people's minds often stakeholders get fearful of what is about to happen within the business for instance if a new project management office or PMO is being implemented in the project managers will report into the PMO instead of the current manager that could manager Mike fuel loss of control occurring and start to raise concerns about the new PM all very stakeholder groups can completely derail a project as a gets close to implementation it's critical to work very closely with stakeholders who may perceive they are losing some control or political power due to the implementation of the product identify the stakeholder groups upfront and work carefully with them as the project gets close to implementation communicated them frequently to ensure they understand what is and is not about to happen leveraged your sponsor is required to remind Sweatman stakeholder groups that the product is being implemented for the good of the company if you watch out for these three trends you will significantly increase your chances of keeping your project healthy look for changes to the business of growing number of pests do issues were stakeholders that may be threatened by the project
Altering Your Project Management Approach
Rescuing a project in you need to alter your project management approach you have to increase sensitivity and act more quickly to ensure the project stays on track first you need to be, micromanage as bad as that sounds the micromanagement focuses on tasks but not the people if you are tracking tests to the 80 to 100 and only our levels during recovery mode change this to 40 hours doing this helps you more closely monitor work through the completion if you and your team are able to achieve your test completion goals for couple of months and covenanters restored then you can consider backing off on returning to the normal 80 to 100 warning our test level this will require extra work on your behalf but it is well worth it as you can afford to have the project your offkilter again you may also want to create more milestones than you use previously if you typically have a milestone each month final progress item to report every two weeks you want to rebuild positive impression of the project showing progress frequently is the best way to do that next reward bad news communicate to your team that if something is not right they need to let you know sooner versus later ideally team members to do this all the time but it's critical Wanna project is being rescued the sooner you know about problems the quicker you can address them in addressing quickly is vital be ready to reward people for bringing issues to your attention sometimes it's as simple as keeping some treating your desk project team to narrowly report issues but to bring ideas on how to resolve the issues as well staffing changes should be considers well studies have shown having several people working part-time on your project is not as productive as having fewer people that are dedicated to your project full-time for example having to people who are performing similar roles typically complicates project having one dedicated person can help add stability if you asking for a full-time researcher a fairly short period of time the management team may indeed be able to accommodate your request if you think it will help as if you have numerous vendor's you might want to consider consolidating your vendor's this may be more difficult to achieve but could be worthwhile similar to having part-time resources the more vendor's you have the more complicated the project becomes having fewer vendor's means you have less finger-pointing opportunities between vendor's and less stressful communication interface mishaps between those lenders even if you weren't around when a project run off the rails take ownership and be self-critical if you take ownership for the problems to date you will encourage others to own up to their contribution to the situation the goal was to get problems and issues on the table so they can be openly discussed and resolved by starting with yourself in admitting what you client change bowlers may follow suit there are many different approaches you can take to maintain momentum while rescuing a project don't try all of these approaches it wants focus on one or two approaches that you believe will help given your project situation
Next Steps
Sadly the opportunities to rescue troubled products, way to off the techniques we have discussed in this course can be used to rescue project but more importantly in many cases applying the techniques we have discussed here can be applied early in any project to keep it from needing a rescue although many projects can be complex the greatest challenges come from the stakeholders the effect the project it's essential that you make a focused effort on establishing meaningful and trust-based relationships with your projects stakeholder this is true whether you are managing a project is running well were if you find yourself rescuing a project in trouble many projects could avoid troubled state if more sound project management techniques are applied from the store of the project if you find yourself working are project with make project management Friday held by applying basic project management techniques and tools we discussed in this course you may be surprised at how quickly things can change remember the rescuing troubled project can require a dose of courage you must do things differently than you did before differently than your processor did before you were asked to call off a project rescue stakeholders expect things to change Wanna project is risk you don't hesitate to consider changing things to succeed is often Vallone will increase the confidence of your project team and stakeholders if you can*you will trouble project congratulations are in order not everyone is perceived as having what it takes to rescue a project in trouble so you may have licensed to be different use the tools we have discussed here or change them as you see fit be aggressive and picture from others to succeed and you just may senior troubled projects come back to life there are a number of organisations around the world and provide professional certification is from project managers virtually all of them require information on the real world project management experience you have compiled so don't forget to record the approximate number of hours use them managing projects in be sure to include project objective project phase of faces you work on along with the supervisor's name can attest to the work you perform you may find an information handy at some point if you want to pursue project management certification