Once you are established in your career, prioritise job details that impact your daily life, like commute time and project management systems rather than pay and career development. This will give you more time for a better work-life balance and time for personal growth and development.
Track your career history and your work achievements. Make detailed records of this. It will help you progress in your career, get promotions, and get certified in your professional field. Do this regularly and consistently.
Don’t treat your project team with favouritism. Be fair and even with all your project team.
Use job performance related metrics rather than personal preferences when allocating roles, tasks and rewards
Good, regular project status reports are a very important way to ensure you and your projects are noticed. If you regularly make project status reports for all your projects, you will get noticed and be more likely to keep your job and get promoted.
Projects often fail because the project team members are not clear on their roles and responsibilities. Make sure your project team members know what they are supposed to do with defined roles, clear role descriptions and briefs of what they should be doing.
Multiple timesheets waste project staff time and project management time. Automate the transfer of timesheet data wherever possible, to save time, costs and increase staff satisfaction.
The Project Manager should manage the client, risks, and resources, and delegate most other tasks to others, those others should not also be a project manager on the project. Multiple …
A good timesheet and labour forecasting system should make the task of budget forecasting much more efficient and accurate, saving time and money.
It is important to get the setup of all the IT systems correct early in a project. For example. If you have a team placed in a client office to …
Most companies or organizations have multiple projects all pulling at resources to achieve their goals. It is important that the program or projects manager be aware of what each projects …