Leadership in Project Management

The key to building effective project management competency is not managing each project as a singular instance; rather it is helping your organization learn to manage its project portfolio. This "one-to-many" approach helps strengthen the strategic impact of project management and improves the overall delivery capacity of the organization.

 

We know from our own experience that project success is measured by more than just the perspective of time, budget and scope. There are key factors that must be in place to ensure that projects are being managed effectively. For instance, are we meeting key checkpoints (e.g., requirements, workflow and technical design, code, test, roll-out)? Is our end user ready to receive the finished product? Does our sponsor fully support the project? Do we even know who our sponsor is? Are all stakeholders fully bought into the project vision? Does the fact that some or all of these factors are not in place signal that the project is in jeopardy?