Learn About These to Unlock Project Success
Ready to take your project from good to exceptional? There are six essential characteristics of a project you should be paying attention to. Integrating them into your planning will ultimately set your project up for success.
Let’s dive into some of those key characteristics!
Monitoring
Big or small, monitoring is a must on every project, and it’s one of your key activities as a project manager. When you are monitoring you’re looking at the overall project plan, surveying all the different activities going on, and ensuring that everyone is following what was agreed to in the project plan.
With monitoring comes an element of control as well – so when things start to change or new things crop up, you’re able to tweak your plan to ensure everyone is on track to reach the project’s larger objectives.
Risk Management
No matter how simple or complex your project, risk is inevitable. If you’re not thinking about risk and not planning for it, your project can end up going sideways.
While you can’t prevent risk from happening, with the right kinds of plans in place – namely, a contingency plan and a risk mitigation plan – you can minimize the impact of risk on your project. Knowing about the characteristic and being proactive about it all through the project lifecycle, will vastly increase your chances of success.
4 more key characteristics
There are four other project essentials to know about to set your project up for success and I explore them in detail in my latest video. Join me over in YouTube to learn what they are, as well as how you can handle them to ensure exceptional project outcomes.
Meanwhile, if you really are committed to mastering your next project, consider taking my SLAY Project Management online course where I show you step-by-step how to successfully manage a project. You’ll also get access to every project template you need, along with detailed video instructions on how to fill them out.
Adriana Girdler, PMP | Creator of Slay Project Management™
