Because of the uncertainty of the project, volatility, stepped pit project management for workers is a common practice, most of the work even part time project management workers are in the "fill the hole", instead of spending a lot of time to "fill the hole" it is better to "avoid the pit" from the beginning.
In project management, the most common "pit" There are delays in the project schedule, irrational distribution of resources (resource conflicts, overload load, unsaturated, etc.), questions focused on the outbreak, sharing of knowledge can not be the face of these "pits" evade solve not problems to face, calm analysis, with the resources and tools is the correct way to deal with. Learn to avoid the pit, is already one step faster than others, and slowly you will find that your "avoid the pit" is actually your ability competitiveness. This article will share how to use CORNERSTONE manage projects, reduce the "hit pit" risk.
First, the project schedule delays
For project management, the delay in progress is very fatal problem: the delay time of the task, the quality of project deliverables, both will lead the project schedule delays, cost overruns bring. If there is a correlation between the project and the project is A project delays will result shelved B project, which in turn will generate more than bone Connaught brand effect, affecting the entire enterprise to achieve strategic objectives.
CORNERSTONE task management can give a dual track program from the progress and quality, to ensure that managers complete control over project status: PMO or senior management may major nodes from the milestone plan review projects, and review the quality of deliverables through the approval process; project managers can view and schedule time to complete each task by WBS plan, if the schedule delays, the project manager can detect as early as possible, to resolve as soon as possible.
Task Manager on ▲ CORNERSTONE
Second, the irrational distribution of resources
In the project management process, enterprises are often multiple projects in parallel, and share resources between projects. This will be allocated resources across projects appear; resource allocation, resource conflicts, overload load, unsaturated, etc. are common problems. In the context of limited resources, especially human resources, how to prioritize, how to maximize resource utilization, project managers are placed in front of the problem.
In CORNERSTONE , the department manager (Resource Manager) can reasonably be allocated according busy and working skills of staff personnel to the various project managers; state employee system display through traffic lights, can help managers (resource manager) is more reasonable in the allocation of resources , science, give full play to the post adaptation, take full advantage of the performance.
HR view on the ▲ CORNERSTONE
Third, the problem of concentrated outbreak
Too many projects, many issues to be resolved, so that managers are often busy with switching between different projects every day and information, enough to make any seasoned managers exhausted. Battered the occasion, problems often follow. Not the whole picture of the state control of the entire project, not timely detection and prediction of risk, making risk "grow" the final questions focused on the outbreak, which is simply a nightmare.
In CORNERSTONE on, PMO can monitor the health status of the project, including the status of related items were delivered, hours of work, schedule, cost, benefits, risks, issues, etc., with traffic lights warning; managers at a glance the status of all projects can be found at any time according to the state risk, and solve the problem to remedy.
Combined monitoring view on the ▲ CORNERSTONE, display health status of each project
Fourth, knowledge of the document can not be shared
Companies to complete a project, will have a large number of documents, accumulated a wealth of experience, but the experience and technical knowledge documents scattered around everyone, not curing the enterprise knowledge; knowledge can not use these existing experience and results transformation and re-creation, we can not promote the sustainable development of enterprises and employees and enhance the competitiveness of enterprises.
CORNERSTONE provide support knowledge base to store and share all kinds of files and knowledge of public documents, including documents, URL address, the system object linking; support multi-space management, full-text search, hierarchical directories, directory decentralized management, strict access control can be safely control information so that knowledge sharing is more efficient, safer, and help enterprises to establish a knowledge base library, enterprises will experience the results of curing.
Project document libraries on ▲ CORNERSTONE
Fifth, on CORNERSTONE
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