Are you a project manager, or thinking of becoming a project manager, then you really need
to consider the objectives of project management, and in this video I'm going to share with you six
non-negotiable objectives every project manager should have, and if you want to excel in your
project management skills stay tuned to the end of this video because I'm going to tell you how you
can get your hands on an amazing checklist on why projects fail something you really want to know.
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like this video, and let's get to it. Set the standard for team communication and collaboration.
All right, if you have seen my videos you probably have heard me talk about communication a lot, and
even about over communication. That is so critical to project teams, everyone being on the same page,
everyone ensuring that they understand what so it becomes really critical to
establish what your expectations are around communication with your team, which actually
really coincides with collaboration as well, how are you going to collaborate together, those go
hand in hand so some really good examples are you may want to consider all of your documentation,
having them in a single point location, so that everyone can go and get access to it,
but the key is be very clear with the expectations not only on communication but on the
collaboration. Ensure the project is strategically aligned to your organizational goals, every
project that exists is usually linked to some sort of goal or objective from a strategy perspective,
so it becomes really important that you don't lose sight of that, really connecting to the
objectives and the goals and the strategies just ensures you stay on track, this also helps on
other factors too, like motivating the team, they understand the bigger picture as to the why,
it also ensures that you're in the loop with what your senior executives are trying to do,
so just keep that at your forefront in your mind that everything you do needs to tie back to the
goals, and objectives, and do not lose sight of that. Manage time, time is a big component of
projects, look you have a start and an end date, and you need to ensure you're on track for that,
so ensure you're on top of your calendars, your schedules, and that your team and anybody who's
part of that project is aware of those deliverables, something else to consider
about managing time that's going to help you tremendously to keep you on time is risk, managing
risk, so you want to ensure what all those risk potentials are going to be for your project, and
put those contingency and mitigation plans. I have a great video on risk management, definitely check
it out as it's going to help you understand and be a big contributing factor towards managing time.
Keep budget and scope in check, all right, we just talked about time, scope and budget are the other
parts that are really critical when it comes to our projects, so you want to keep it in check, now
with a scope statement that's basically telling us what we're supposed to be doing and delivering on,
and what really can get out of control, and that you must as a project manager keep aligned is
get rid of scope creep if you want all the deets on scope creep I have another video for you,
you can check out for sure to give you that additional information, but you have to keep
it in check, now there are things you can do like change control, which are really cool tools
and techniques that I do highly recommend, but that scope creep, definitely keep that at bay,
now the other aspect is budgets too, you want to be monitoring those budgets making sure
that you're not overspending, or if something is popping up and you are overspending why, so you
have to keep that all in check that's part of your job and a major objective of a project manager. Be
adaptable, aka agile, aka flexibility in thinking, whatever it is that you want to call it out as
you need to be adaptable, now what do I mean by that, do not have be so stringent in your
work philosophy the ways of working anything of that nature you have to have that flexibility,
one thing we all know about projects it is constantly changing and evolving
as things progress and move through the life cycle, you're going to have things that pop up,
you need to be able to have that flexibility with yourself, your team, in order to ensure that you
can go with the flow so that's a huge objective that you have to have as a project manager being
and having that ability to go with the flow, make sure that you have all your documentation down,
that's going to help you a lot with the ability to go with the flow, because then you just have to
kind of course correct, but that adaptability, and that ability to really think and move as
things are progressive and accept that it's okay to write and rewrite and rewrite again your
project plan or activities don't be locked into one way. Grow your project management knowledge,
this to me is probably the most important thing you could ever do,
it's called continuous improvement, there's always something we can learn, in fact that's why
the longer you're at doing project management, the more wisdom you have and experience etc so whether
you are been doing this for a really long time and you're like hey I got it all, or you're brand new,
don't forget that you need to grow your knowledge base, there's a lot of new things that pop up
there could be new techniques, there could even be things that have nothing to do with projects,
but have everything to do with teams that you want to learn about, something to check out that
you may want to be interested is I have a really cool free webinar on how to start your project
off like a pro so you may want to check that out that would be a really good knowledge base too
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