Project Management - You Give Me The Feature Creeps
July 4, 2008
The caliber of the project management you have unified into
your operation or department can mean the difference between living on
and thriving in a very intense industry that you serve. It's very crucial
to understand the evolution of a project management lifecycle and avoid
skirting or skipping important upfront issues from the outset.
It's also very important to understand the concept of not over taking
apart a problem or being paralyzed to a point where further action is
not being accomplished. A dreadful opponent to you in this case would
be "Feature Creep" where individuals from the department keep
changing their minds on requirements or have new ideas on better ones.
Beware of feature creep as it will rear its ugly head at every step
of every stage you come across of your project. Things such as that,
as well as losing focus on the core objectives will normally result in
project failure because a core element or stage of the project is not
able to move onward.
Leadership in this examples is utterly critical in order to prevent
mishaps, and total project disasters from happening. These usually are
not only a waste of time, resources, but a major drain on employee morale
and faith in the leadership of the organization.
Six
Sigma Project Management Employing Six Sigma for the business environment is for
achieving well-defined goals. The project selected for deploying
Six Sigma is not self-sustaining and can develop...
Project
Management Software Guide Gone are the days when project management used to be a
task confined to doing up and down in front of the project
manager, noting down the assigned work of the day on papers...
Project Management
Basics If you have ever had responsibility for managing
a project, regardless of how little or how big, you will
understand the many nuances and special considerations
that have to be taken...
It's critically important to articulate a communication scheme before
the project begins. Make sure to sit down with the clients and stake
holders during a set schedule and with set goals as well as a decided
upon methodology to capture and organize requirements from everyone who
has a stake in the project you are working on. Otherwise they will call
you up every five minutes and give you new requirements or ask you to
alter existing ones.
It goes without saying, this is not a very productive use of your time
nor is it of theirs. A solid big picture review of all the project needs
has to be looked at before moving forward with the actual implementation.
This due diligence will take up a bit more time in the beginning but
will save lots of time, money, concerns, and potentially broken relationships
down the line.
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