Step 4.2 Plan your day

You have a complete Project Definition, a good Project Plan and a Project Budget. You have briefed the project team and they are now working. So what do you do on a day-to-day basis? The funny thing is that you are about to manage a piece of work which is planned out step by step in your Project Plan, but the one thing that is not planned in the same way is your job as the project manager. Do not be under any misapprehension though – there is plenty to do!

Your job is to make sure that everything that needs to happen, to keep the project going towards the desired end result, happens. Anything can occur on a project and you should start every day by thinking:

  • What things are causing most difficulty to the project now (typically ...

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