Issue #5 - How to Manage Multiple Projects?
Sooner or later every project manager has to go through this obstacle.
Managing Multiple Projects
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Manage Multiple Projects
How to MANAGE MULTIPLE PROJECTS?
Sooner or later every project manager has to go through this obstacle.
Here are 5 challenges which you need to address.
MANAGING THE PLAN AND INTEGRATED SCHEDULE
PRIORITIZATION
COMMUNICATION
CENTRAL REPOSITORY
CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION
Managing the plan and intergrated schedule
The key to managing multiple projects is to be as proactive as possible. Use a tool to manage separate project schedules at the same place. This will enable you to identfy potential risk/issues in advance.
Prioritization
You should perform a value assessment on your project portfolio to understand the value of each project and prioritize accordingly. This assessment should measure: Project risks, Alignment, Financial.
Communication
It’s important to communicate with your stakeholders and your project teams about your workload. This will help manage expectations and empower you to ask for additional support if you have too much on your plate.
Central reposatory
When your project information is buried across multiple spreadsheets on different platforms, that can make it hard to manage multiple projects. It can also lead to silos and double work.
Continuos optimization
Plan have to be reviewed regularly, in some cases on daily basis. Optimization refers to human resources, HW/SW or OPEX/CAPEX.
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