Project Manager's authority and control of projects
Many projects fail. There are many causes of the failure according to the research. One of the reasons why, or even most important, the project manager the project can not be adequately controlled ... Inadequate project is mentioned several factors that can control.
- The lack of authority of project manager or as little authority to be equipped with
- geographically distributed project team
- inadequate planning
- Lack of communication management
Depending on the organizational structure of the project manager the authority to change the level. The project manager's authority in the functional structure of an organization level, the organizational structure of the matrix varies according to the project manager becomes. The project manager of the authority of the matrix organization, relatively, compared to more functional. Project Management important in terms of organizational structure. However, projects are being carried out in all types of organizations. How will the project be without authority control? I am also very common with these questions. Yes it is possible to do. So how do we do? Increasing control! According to the organizational structure of authority regardless of what level of project manager, "control" and take into account the need to focus on this point. Project Manager are able to control?
- milestones (milestones)
- Review project status
- change management (scope, cost, time)
- time reporting
- risk monitoring
- contact management
Project manager of the project is able to control how much you can achieve more successful results. In this regard, I am currently reading results without authority "controlling a project when the team does not report to you" by Tom Hendrick 's book recommendation. The language and enjoyable to read, a successful book. How to access without authorization a successful outcome? have a detailed answer to the question of working with Tom Hendrick.
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In this regard I would like to share with you my experience.
In the projects carried out need to give project managers was a target. Assuming the project plan has been correctly identified as Schedule Performance Index (SPI) and CPI (Cost Performance Index) 'i a Key Performance Index (KPI) is defined as I saw the place.
In the context of risk management in the proper case as defined in the range of plus or minus 10% as we have seen the success of SPI and CPI data.
SPI and CPI values with historical data reporting to all project managers and project offices have set conditions. If the SPI and CPI values on the margin of + -10 is reached a new baseline to identify and plan new projects to be approved again by the sponsor and the PMO have revealed the necessity.
In this way the planning mistakes, and enforcement (execution) to check the changes that occurred during the possibilities we have reached.
To enable us to realize all this, of course, the teams and their regular use of the PMIS project manager was our car. Meanwhile, we have used as variables in KPI PMIS been made, whether through the automatic reporting has allowed us to check.
In the coming days with details on my blog I'll write a blog post itself.
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