With today’s ‘virtual business world’, run via the Internet, being able to manage projects that are being coordinated between people who possibly don’t even live in the same country is very, very important to your organisation’s success and profit. This can be a daunting challenge.

However, online project management tools and techniques are vital to your organisation today. Without the highest quality of online project management, your risk of failure is very great in this day and age. But of course, it often seems as if no project management techniques will work for anyone!

We could look at the ‘Murphy’s Laws’ of project management for those that are online and those that are actually being coordinated within one ‘real’ office. Hopefully, by taking a comically cynical view of project management, we can see the real-world importance of strong management and organisation for all projects.

* For starters, it seems as if no important project can ever possibly be completed on time, within the budget, or by the exact same team of collaborators who began it in the first place. It then seems to stem from this Law of Murphy that once the project is finally completed, the end result is little or nothing like the original vision for the project. The initially envisioned benefits are not really all that great, any newly installed system will be not only late but also not doing what it’s supposed to do, but, it will all be called ‘successful’ anyway in order to justify the costs (which, as already mentioned, exceeded the initial budget).

* Many project managers ingeniously use fuzzy or vague project descriptions. They do this so as to avoid criticism and humiliation later on, when the project budget is exceeded.

* As a project progresses, it goes off course. This seems inevitable. But complicating things even more, the further into the project you get, the greater the amount of energy required to put it back on track. If you wait at all, the energy requirement goes up yet further. So, you have to endure great criticism and exhaustion in order to take the initiative of not waiting to put the project back on track. Then you’ll be told that it was never off track.

* Cialis Jelly The clearer and more concise and well-defined your project mission statement is, the more it will be misunderstood by at least one important person working on the project. Along with this, if you launch a project that cannot possibly be objected to for any sane reason, someone working on it will hate it from the start.

* Silagra Any project that yields ‘intangible benefits’ cannot have really yielded anything at all because that which is intangible cannot be measured and thus cannot really be real. It follows, then, that any such projects never really took place, but the money and time somehow got spent anyway. We know this because the amounts can be measured.

* If anyone is available to work part-time on a project, it simply means that they don’t have enough to do already and, thus, should not be allowed to work on the project at all so that they can focus more on their ‘real job’, or they should be fired, in which case they are obviously still unavailable for the project.

It’s funny but all to realistic to imagine this sort of fiasco arising with Internet-based project collaboration. And this is why online project management tools are so crucial to your success.

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Category: Computers/Software
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