50 Top IT Project Management Challenges

CHALLENGE 14: PROJECT INFRASTRUCTURE DELIVERY DELAYED

The infrastructure requirements for your project are very critical and should be managed as a sub-project. You should have a critical inbound dependency on the delivery of your project infrastructure to the project’s appropriate phases. For example, the development environment should be ready and handed over to you in order for your team to start the development work on your project. Similarly, the testing, pre-production and production environments are to be ready for functional test, performance test and go-live.

What will happen if your project environment delivery is delayed? Obviously your project timescales are going to be delayed. How can you manage this challenge?

Though obvious, make ...