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Project Management Snippets
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Snippet 1: Clear thinking brings clear successSo, while Christopher Columbus may have been one successful project manager who did not have a clear idea of what his final result would be, most of us are expected to have such a vision.Do you know the goals of your project? Do you know the final end-state, and know it so well that you could give every detail? Probably not. Let's be honest - unless the project is from your own dreams, it was given to you to figure out both the process, and some details (if not all) of the end result. So don't feel overwhelmed if you don't know every detail - yet! Of course you will do your best to know the details before it is humanly possible to do so, and that will be good enough for the sucessful completion of the project! But, take the time to do some thinking about the project, and the important aspects of how it will accomplished and the end result. Is your thinking clear, or is it muddled? Are you afraid to even start the process (a sure sign of danger) or are you happy to start the process of making sure your thoughts are clear. The danger comes when we know that we had a nice start - a clear vision - and then proceed to assume that we haven't deviated from that. An example:
Now, you're all caught up in the details of approving logos and photos, layout and color schemes, and getting the content edited. But you have a fear of re-visiting those original meeting notes because you have a feeling something was left out. That fear is a wake-up call - run towards it. Open those notes, find the ones that haunt you, and confront them with action. The client stated that it was important that the site pages be search-engine friendly, but you never assigned anyone to that sub-task. Start that now, or at least tell the client that this part will be in a later phase due to resource constraints.
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