8 Aralık 2012 Cumartesi

Manage Small Projects

Some people think that managing small projects is easier than managing big projects. They are right, unless the economies of the scale require you to managing a number of these small projects at the same time. In that case, handling a small project is lot harder than handling a big project. 

Small projects even though mostly overlooked, can make up the bulk of the portfolio and are crucial to a company’s success. They might not involve large sums of money, but the fact remains that if managed properly, these small projects can add up to some major costs in the long run.

The good news is that project managers need only apply standard best practices to these smaller projects in order to manage them more effectively. Here we discuss some of the best methods to be applied in a small project in order to make them success. 

All in all, planning and handling a small project requires planning just like planning a big project. 

Visibility in resource allocation: 

The project manager has to be able to manage the allocation of project work in accordance with the available resources. The project manager must know who in the team is available to work before they assign tasks to people. The team member’s current work and future allocations has to be taken into account while determining how much work has to be given to a particular member. Even though the goal is to complete the work on time, it might not happen at all if the resources are not available and the available resources are not used judicially. 

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