50 Top IT Project Management Challenges

CHALLENGE 36: INSUFFICIENT SCHEDULE INFORMATION

As you know, the project schedule lists the various project tasks, effort involved, duration, resources allocated, dependencies, and/or constraints. It is expected that you maintain the schedule as detailed, and as up to date as possible.

It is a challenge to have the detailed project schedule/tasks information at the very beginning of the project, and it is a mistake of the project manager to build such a detailed project schedule from the very beginning of the project.

Typically, an average complex project will take three to six months from start to finish. You cannot plan the detailed activities and its day-to-day plan for the six months. We have seen many project managers try, and fail, doing ...