2.

Underestimate a Project

- Identify your project phases and your goal end date. This is arguably the most critical phase of the
project management process. The objective is to identify the why behind the project and the project
goals—usually the business case—and to do preliminary research on project feasibility. What happens
here will set the tone and goals for what’s to come.

- Identify your milestones and discuss them with your team. Every project needs a clear objective along
with quantitative measurements before it can begin. You want to point the project’s main problem,
determine the specific necessary requirements—and be clear about all parts and steps. Don’t be vague.
If you don’t put in the time upfront to plan appropriately, then you’re planning to fail.

- Select the best resources for each phase and delegate the task to them. At this point, it is making sure
that the project runs smoothly and ensuring things according to plan. The success of a project depends
on the team working on it, and it is a must to address issues within the workforce. Monitoring the
quality of deliverables and delegating the tasks based on the team performance will be a huge factor on
the project snowballing into success.

- Let the team write down every step of their phase to estimate it. When it comes to estimating, you
might want to use a work breakdown structure (WBS) to help identify tasks and effort. A WBS is a visual
layout that breaks out the scope of a project. Once you’ve made your time and effort estimates, you can
create a project plan that lays out phases, tasks, resources, responsibilities, milestones, and deadlines.
This is a critical step in managing your project, so take your time and think through every step with your
team.

- Use the knowledge from the team on every phase to estimate the entire project from bottom up. The
knowledge of the team is very precise and very close to every specific matter, they know most of the
possible exceptions, every possible delay, every bottle neck on their specific phase. To have a complete
and precise estimation you must go deeper with your team and analyze with them all the phases, let
them estimate their phases like they would be the project managers, delegate. This approach will help
you improve your resource management in general.

- Celebrate the project. Acknowledging the hard work done or a great product produced is a must.
Organizing a small party over lunch to get the team and stakeholders together can establish bonds and
boost the team morale. Thus, exemplary work is expected on the upcoming projects.

6. Working with the wrong clients

- You’re Not Staying Unattached from the Result. To understand how to attract the right customers for
you, stop being attached to the outcome of your sales conversations. Attachment to the result means
you enter the conversation with an agenda other than to explore what else is possible and to serve.
References:

- https://kanbanize.com/blog/underestimated-project-goals/

- https://twproject.com/blog/strategy-to-estimate-time-for-project/

- https://www.liquidplanner.com/blog/the-4-worst-project-management-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-
them/

- https://www.teamgantt.com/blog/5-crucial-project-management-phases

- https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-you-keep-getting-wrong-clients-andrew-horder