7 March 2018
IT company,myths,project management
Pritika Shrestha
Companies have long been holding wrong conceptions about project management. While these false beliefs can lead your company to face losses in terms of time as well as economic resources, avoiding these can help raise your company’s work standard, save resources and time from going to waste, and thus, insure the progress of the company. This is why it is crucial for your employees to understand, analyze and eliminate these myths.
Below are listed the most popularly held myths related to project management avoiding which can help your company reach the next level.
Clients know what they need
Clients are the ones asking for your service; so, they must know what they are looking for, right?
Perhaps not!
Your company is the one expert in the niche, not them. Most of the times they don’t even have a dint of an idea related to what they are looking for. At Contentder, 70% of customers cannot specifically describe their expectations and just have a vague idea of what they think they want. Therefore, it becomes our responsibility to build a vivid image, no matter how blurred the clients’ ideas are. Sometimes, we also think it’s better to suggest what works out best for them.
Managers are good at everything
Since project managers are the backbone for any project, it is a common delusion that managers ought to be best at everything. They must be a good developer, good testing engineer, and a prolific designer. And on the top of all, along with a good educational background they should have the capability to solve any problem in a matter of minutes.
What makes a manager perspicacious is not the acuity at academic as well as other sectors, but it’s the experience and skillset they have related to understanding team member’s expertise and assigning the right work to the right member and, thus, making sure that the project runs along the intended direction and with targeted speed.
Reviewing lessons is a waste of time
Every project has some unintended mistakes and thus, gives the members some lessons to learn. This can contribute towards improving the existing project or even preventing such mistakes from occurring in the future ones.
Contrary to this, the popular belief that project members often hold is that lesson review or going over the same thing again is a waste of time. Rather, it’s such that reviewing lessons can save the company plenty of time that can go waste otherwise if such mistakes are repeated in the future.
Budget and time define the success
It is always believed that if a project is accomplished under a small budget and within an intended time period, it is a huge success. This is an outdated conception. Whether it be the Commercial-off-the-shelf projects or custom ones, quality plays a huge role. If a team finishes a product in an intended time and budget, but the end result has a lot of issues, the stakeholder might be unsatisfied with the product and the company has to put in an equal amount of resources to solve that. How is that beneficial in the long run?
Compromise means failure