Being an Effective Project Manager: Your Guide to Becoming a Project Management Rock Star: Best Practices, Methodology, and Success Principles for a Project … (Project Management by Ready Set Agile)

AS
a project manager, you’re used to juggling tasks, people, and resources, all while
keeping the client happy. But, do you ever wish it were easier? That you and your
team could do more with all those work hours you’re given? Sometimes, it’s a slog
to get everything and everyone on the same page and all working together as one
team to achieve the project goal.
Maybe you’ve been struggling to ensure that projects are completed on time and
budget. You may think you’ve estimated the resource needs correctly, and then
there’s suddenly an unexpected and unforeseen development that ends up
destroying the timeline. As of the time of writing this book (June 2020), we’re still
in the middle of the coronavirus epidemic. No one saw this coming, and it has
upset the business plans for quite a few project managers.
No one can reasonably blame you for not seeing the COVID-19 virus coming
beforehand. However, do you find that you’re often held accountable for issues that
are out of your control? As the project manager (PM), you are the one who’s
responsible for the completion of the project as planned. Despite this, project teams
or stakeholders may sometimes seem to take it too far and blame you for things that
genuinely were not in your control.
Stakeholders are known for pressuring their project managers and teams. Other
issues may have come up, and they’d like to shift some of the budget they agreed to
invest in the project somewhere else. And they may want you to finish ahead of
time, despite signing off on the months of work that you estimated the project
would take. Maybe they want to add some additional features to the scope without
increasing the budgets for time and money appropriately.
Staying organized in terms of time can also be difficult for a PM. Once the
schedule starts to slip, it’s not always easy to get it back where it needs to be.
You’re also responsible for organizing the work, and some tasks must be completed
before the next one begins, which may cause headaches when your
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