Does People Behaviour Impact Projects? How? And What Do We Do About It?

We all know that projects are considered successful only when they are completed within the boundaries of scope, time, cost and quality. Bad project management is detrimental and can be very difficult to deal with – for especially large projects with bug budgets. A small percentage of several projects undertaken across the globe are really successful. 

People behaviour is one of the KEY factors that drive successful project management. In today’s world – virtual project teams often not co-located – are commonplace. In this environment, it is essential that behaviour, emotions and culture .....

A successful project manager must be a great communicator! Project management communication as a skill that is never perfected, can always be improved and is pivotal in being able to initiate and mobilise a project effectively.

The PMI (Project Management Institute) suggest a project manager should spend 90 per cent of their time communicating!

A project team is generally quite a diverse group of people. Project teams are usually thrust together to deliver a bespoke and unique benefit to an organisation, something new and different to the day to day activities undertaken. This diversity provides a further communication challenge for the project manager.

Project leadership calls for clear communication about goals, responsibility, performance, expectations and feedback.

Successful project management communication is about ....

Identifying and mitigating project risks are crucial steps in managing successful projects.

This article proposes the extension of the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) format to quantify and analyse project risks. The new technique is labelled the project risk FMEA (RFMEA). The RFMEA is a modification of the well-known process, product, and service FMEA technique.

In order to use the FMEA format for projects, the detection value ....