Commentators have differing views on what constitutes a top-quality project. the widely agreed parameters are that it delivers the specified outcomes on time and within budget.
Through our long experience, the Transformed team has identified 6 key factors that improve project quality:
Key Success Factor 1: Good Plan
Read: Project Planning Step by step Guide
The Plan, Do Check, Act cycle is prime to achieving project quality. the general project plan should include an idea for a way the project manager and team will maintain quality standards throughout the project’s cycle.
Key Success Factor 2: Appropriate Communication
Despite good project planning and scheduling, poor or absent communication with team members and stakeholders can bring a project undone. Project managers need excellent communication skills and a comprehensive scheme that encourages formal and informal discussion of expectations, innovation, progress, and results.
Key Success Factor 3: Manage Stakeholders
Stakeholders include everyone who has an interest in, can influence, or is suffering from the project’s implementation or outcomes. to interact with stakeholders, identify who they’re, analyze their concerns and what they have to understand then prepare a technique to supply the acceptable amount of data and opportunities for involvement.
Key Success Factor 4: Good Measurement
Early within the process, it’s important to spot the key outcomes and outputs of the project and the way you’ll measure whether or not they are delivered. Implement processes that measure progress, both qualitatively and quantitatively, throughout the project at the individual, team, and whole project levels. This ensures that problems are often identified early and successful tactics are often promulgated throughout the project.
Key Success Factor 5: Constant Review
Along with good measurement go good review mechanisms. Successful project managers diligently and frequently review progress against the schedule, budget, and quality elements of the project. The regular review allows problems to be identified early in order that corrective action is often taken to stay the project on target. The review also helps team members to find out and improve their skills.
Key Success Factor 6: Act Early
Measurement and review are important, but they’re only effective if the project manager takes action on issues identified. Leaving problems to be restored later may be a recipe for disaster. Simple issues should be addressed immediately. More complex issues should be added for action into the project plan and resources allocated to deal with them.
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