Management Mastery

Project Management: Winding Down the Project

When overseeing a project in their department, the manager must continuously evaluate progress and make the decision when to wind down the project.  We covered, in a previous episode of Management Mastery, the manager’s role in monitoring the progress of a project.  In this episode, we cover the steps important to the successful winding down and conclusion of any project.

Project Management: Monitoring Progress

We’ve discussed defining the problem a project is meant to address, selecting the team for the project and conducting the initial team meeting.  Ideally, once the project is underway, the manager’s role becomes one of monitoring the team’s progress to ensuring its success.  The project needs to be managed through a clear, efficient, operational structure if it’s to be successful..  That’s the topic for this week’s episode.

Project Management: The Kickoff Meeting

After understanding the project and choosing the best staff to achieve success, we now move to the important initial meeting with staff.  This meeting, if handled well, will dramatically increase your odds of having a successful project.

Project Management: Selecting the Best Team

While it’s easy to say, “A project is only as successful as the people behind it,” it also requires time and attention to get the process of selecting the team right.  Finding the right balance between technical skills, social skills, and interpersonal fit are all important considerations.  Selecting the best team for a project is the subject of this week’s episode

Project Management

Managing a project is a complex process influenced by a range of factors that can make it challenging, both on a personal and an organizational level.  We’ll look at managing and overseeing a project in this episode beginning with defining the problem.  In future episodes we’ll examine setting up a project team, monitoring team progress, making course corrections as a project progresses, ongoing evaluation of team management and the manager’s role before, during, and after the project.