Challenging Aspects of Modern Project Management
Modern Project Management is a well-understood discipline that can produce predictable, repeatable results. A key challenge of Modern Project Management is the creation of realistic schedules that provide a basis for monitoring project progress for the time dimension of the project and subsequently, to implement and stick to them. Unrealistic schedule is the Project Manager's fault! One of the key reasons for the Project Manager's existence is to see if the needed end date can be met and create options to make it happen, all before project executing starts. Project Managers must know how and when to introduce multiple strategies and compress project schedules to the deadlines. Even more importantly, the Modern Project Management approach must support the aggressive schedules. Each activity in a project is unique. A project has never happened before, and it will never happen again under the same conditions. Something is always different each time the activities of a proje...