Freelance Work and Business Creation

Successful Project Management Organization Strategies

by Freelance

Project management with an eye toward time savings is key to delivering an on-time project deadline. Use existing resources as much as possible. If there is a corporate approved software version or existing staff component that can be tapped, don’t hesitate. Organize every time saving help meet inside the critical path envelope. No project ever died from being thoroughly completed early or over-delivering due to excess planning.

Tracking Software

Tracking software allows critical path information and tasking progress to assimilate under one reporting architecture. Tracking must be taking place during the entire project. Groupware or shared access to a corporate intranet or virtual network allows data delivery, cost accounting, staff hours reporting and integrated project budgeting, project correspondence, and collaboration. Use a license already issued to your company, accessed from a network drive. Work using the company intranet and launch the application from there.

Cost Benefit Analysis


The cost of every project is the goal line. No project is worth embarrassing the company financially or breaking the bank. Project management may require surgical layers of employee time over years to complete one important millstone. For these reasons data quality, conclusions, executive summary and concordance to project goals must be of the highest caliber.

Work the project plan with the cost factor situated highest. Management is more likely to forgive a cheaper project coming in late than a timely project coming in over budget. Rank the most expensive tasks as highest priority. Track these tasks and their integrity the closest. Compare cost of advancing calendar versus advancing cost totals.

Capability Ratings

Project personnel are human beings. Psychology and human social relations can affect performance like any other work situation. Capability Ratings inside a project team allow a level playing field. Some are viewed as more choice or preferred. Some project tasks may be viewed as tantamount to project management of some specific tangent of the overall goal. These ratings should be posted inside an intranet or within the project staff community. This assists a project manager in choosing key task staff without blowback or negative ramifications.

User reviews/Peer reviews

Peer reviews often shed light on personality and social characteristics of an employee in a project workflow scenario. Managers can identify quality issues much more closely with arm’s length peer reports than from supervisory feedback. Employees who train together and work together can effectively communicate peer level issues with respect to project quality and contribution potential. Work habits, performance strengths , and goals for improvement have more insight.

Begin the Final Draft Early

Map an outline for your final draft project document and tailor it accordingly as the project goes on. Make sure one other pair of eyeballs sees what you are writing for sense, order, clarity, and professionalism. Glean from other finished reports and supplemental documents to see proper etiquette and style. Keep up to date on progress from all teams and detail draft notes for the executive summary. Saving this project for the end surmounts a huge amount of data and communication catchup.

Data Auditing

Check project data sets and integrated document versions every night. Pick random data bits to test from raw data. Check per employee data integrity and review with team leaders as appropriate. Review methodology for data and information gathering and review documents from multiple sources to align style and communication practices. One uniform document should be the result. Timely review catches errors before delivery constraints restrict management decision making options.

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