50 Top IT Project Management Challenges

CHALLENGE 43: STAKEHOLDER’S MICROMANAGEMENT

Sometimes there are conflicts in your organisation where your senior manager, or your client, can tend to micromanage your project, instead of delegating a set of expectations to you. They tend to work directly with your team, and hijack your project meetings, driving the project as if it was theirs, and giving conflicting messages and/or instructions to the team. It causes a lot of confusion to you, your team and project suppliers, on who is in the driving seat. In addition to confusion, it causes a lot of stress to the project manager, and it de-moralises the whole team. If you start giving some instructions, or ask for a status update from a team member, they might say that they have already given ...