Strategies for Success - Kicking off a Project
This mlh global hr consulting strategies for success article talks about a critical but frequently over looked or under emphasized element of project management, namely project launch, and suggests some ways to tackle this.
Good project management requires team leadership, organisation capability, subject matter understanding, good project structures and protocols, communication and reporting. The normal approach is to:
Plan Do Review Replan Do Review and so forth With, of course, good communication underpinning all these activities.
Communication needs to be with the stakeholders, the project team, and the organisation in general, as well as customers, community, regulatory authorities etc. The importance of communication and the need for it to be regular, concise and targeted to the audience cannot be overestimated - and few guides on project management will fail to emphasise this point A key, and frequently omitted or rushed stage, however, is project launch. Good project launch is an investment that will never be regretted and with a bit of planning does not need to be onerous. There are many reasons for omitting it