What’s Hard about Project Management?

What’s Hard about Project Management?Managing a large project requires a lot of good planning.   But, as difficult as the planning is, good tracking of even one big project can be extremely challenging.   And, if you have multiple large projects running concurrently, that tracking can be a nightmare.   Some of the challenges include:

Using the Web to Make Project Tracking EasyImagine how much easier it would be to track projects if individual team members could simply make updates on their own tasks directly, instead of requiring a project manager to transcribe that information into a tracking tool.   There’s no need to imagine this today, because this is precisely the sort of problem that the Internet is perfect for solving.

A Web-based project management system easily solves the problems listed above:

Evaluating Net CostsA customized Web-based tool sounds expensive, but it does not have to be.   The net price of such a system should be evaluated not only in terms of up-front and maintenance costs, but also in terms of potential cost savings, efficiency improvements, and additional revenues.

Determining cost savings is relatively easy.   Figure out how much time your project managers spend tracking projects, and cut that by 80% to 90%.   Calculate how much time is spent each week creating reports for other people, and cut that by 95%.   And so on …

Projections for additional revenues that could be generated is not as easy, but it is an exciting topic to explore.   How much more business will your sales people close (compared with your less forward thinking competitors) if they are able to offer instant, on-demand project status updates to clients?  How could your office staff utilize additional free time created by automating the tedious tracking process?  These are questions that require some creativity to answer, but they are the types of questions that, if addressed appropriately, can give you a significant edge on the competition.

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