Project Management Step by Step: How to Plan and Manage a Highly Successful Project

Step 4.8 Take action to ensure the project’s success

By performing the previous parts of Step 4 you understand your project’s progress, you understand issues and risks and the changes that are being asked for. You have all the information you need to manage the project, but managing a project is not simply about understanding it, it is about taking action.

Key drivers for success 6: Be the project manager! There are always lots of things to do on a project: tasks that need to be completed, issues that need to be resolved, risk and changes that need to be analysed, and customers who need to be briefed on progress. There is sometimes a temptation for the project manager to get involved in doing the work and not focus on managing it. The title ...