Turning Business Challenges into Successful Delivery
There can be a big difference between knowing what a business wants to achieve and successfully making it happen.
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As priorities change, projects can become more complex and harder to manage. The structures, processes and expertise needed to manage them don’t always develop at the same pace, which can create problems across the wider project portfolio.
These seven challenges reflect the issues we see most often when businesses are struggling to turn their plans into action.
Turning strategy into action
Getting control of your project portfolio
Inconsistent project delivery
Project management capability
Project management capacity
Scaling resources across the portfolio
Managing bespoke client work as delivery
Common Obstacles in Project Management
These challenges rarely exist in isolation. What looks like a lack of project management capacity may also be linked to unclear priorities, inconsistent project delivery or gaps in the wider resources needed to get projects completed.
Looking at how those challenges interact can help uncover what’s creating the pressure and where changes will have the greatest impact.
Turning strategy into action
Without a roadmap connecting business ambitions to project priorities, it becomes difficult to turn strategy into a realistic programme.
Getting control of your project portfolio
When projects are managed in different places across the business, getting a reliable picture of what's happening can be difficult.
Inconsistent project delivery
Different approaches to planning, reporting and governance make it harder to maintain consistency across the business.
Project management capability
As projects grow in scale and complexity, the demands on the person leading them change too.
Project management capacity
When there are more projects than the team has capacity for, project managers can find themselves balancing an increasing workload.
Scaling resources across the portfolio
Engineers, analysts and other specialists may be required across several projects at once, creating bottlenecks when demand exceeds availability.
Managing bespoke client work as delivery
Some services are complex enough to behave like projects, particularly when requirements differ for every client.