- Posted by Okechukwu Anosike on October 28, 2009
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Successful project managers avoid wasting valuable time and are more productive. The following time management tips can help lead to such increased productivity.
• With a comprehensive plan, everyone on the team knows where the focus should be, allowing the project manager to spend less time dealing with issues caused by confusion and more time tracking progress and moving the project forward.
• Don’t waste time on endless team meetings. Enforce an agenda that keeps meetings short and to the point. Discussions about big issues should only include individuals that are directly involved. It is pointless to have the whole team sit through a discussion when they could be working.
• Good project management skills should have a positive impact on both the reader and their organisation’s bottom line. In today’s environment no organisation has limitless resources and good project management is just good business sense.
• Following the Pareto Principle, or the 80/20 rule, can also improve productivity. As a project manager it pays to focus on the 20 per cent of activities that are most important since these tasks can yield 80 per cent of the desired results.
• There is no need to get involved in the technical work. It is the project manager’s job to allow the carefully chosen team to concentrate on their work. Instead, spend time steering the project to success. When the project manager loses sight of the big picture problems are created rather than solved.
• Making a daily to-do list, and crossing items off the list as they are completed, gives a sense of satisfaction and keeps the project manager focused on the day’s objectives.
• Every project has the potential to change the way we do business, and these books distil some of the complexities of project management into manageable and practical guides,
By following these time management tips the project is sure to move forward and have a greater potential for success.
Tags: project, management, pareto principle
Category: General Engineering, Project Engineering
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