3 experts have described difficult decisions they had to take in one project.
Now think about what was important for them in taking the decision the took. Would they act differently in a different context? Why?
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Clear and effective Communication to the team members can foster understanding, being truthful about the situation and coming together to bring a solution to the problem.
The decision to terminate a project early, considering the investment of the project team can really be painful. When the project is not longer a priority. When the organization has other important project to spend their resources.
Language problem: Interacting with other international country can affect the flow of the project negatively.
It’s important to understand the reason why we need to take on the decision, for the continuity of the projec t or reason while the projec needs to stoped
Yes, they would act differently because they have different skills and method adopted to manage and make better decision during this times
To handle difficult decisions, one must carefully consider the options, gather relevant information and just choose what is best for the project.
One thing I get hold of is that as a PM you must not be rigid in decision making you must be ready to take up any challenge that comes with the project, because not all project has the same nature. Nevertheless you must be ready to go out of your comfort zone even if you don’t feel like. To me they act differently for another project because they will have you go in line with the set down goal even if it’s for them to make the sacrifices
As a project manager it is likely matter’s will arise, from the client, a good communication, flexibility and willingness help to make decisions for the success of the project
I don’t think they would have acted differently because I believe it’s in their behaviour to act that way. They embody the role in their characters, and I admire that. They think of solutions to help the team and put off their egos.
I see that as a PM, you will need to at one time or the other, step out of your comfort zone in order to make things work, thinking critically and making a decision based on what’s happening to over come more problems
Every project has its unique problems and also possible solutions to them. Now that the project manager is in a dilemma, Decision making is quite hard, but as at that point in time, the most important thing to them is to complete the project according to the project goals and deliverables and meet stakeholders expectations
It is also very possible for them to act in a very different way when handling another project because of the uniqueness of every porojects
The projects might be similar but may have different approaches of solving these problems.
Flexibility is a critical tool that would be a PM must possess. This is so because a project must often must encounter unforeseen circumstances that ll require urgent and sometimes difficult decisions. This unforeseen circumstances may arise due to changes in government policy and decisions but being focused on the goal ll always drive the best difficulty decision to make.
Difficult decisions making is indeed a criteria that a successful PM must expect while undertaking a project.
Flexibility is a critical tool that would be a PM must possess. This is so because a project most often encounters unforeseen circumstances that ll require urgent and sometimes difficult decisions. This unforeseen circumstances may arise due to changes in government policy and decisions but being focused on the goal ll always drive the best difficulty decision to make.
Difficult decisions making is indeed a criteria that a successful PM must expect while undertaking a project.
I think one major factor in all the project managers mind was meeting the success criteria, and to do that you have to deal a lot of in between in the project starting from scope creeps to contingency issues, to language barriers and the decisions each one made, was the right decision to seeing that the customer was satisfied even the one project that was terminated, which was painful but was also the right choice.