Increase Your Team Participation

  ProjectsAtWork  

As project portfolio management methodologies gain greater adoption in IT departments, the greatest challenge facing executives and IT project managers is a lack of voluntary team member participation in the project management process. Here are three key drivers of increased team participation.

Traditionally, project leaders have employed top-down or command-and-control management approaches on the project teams, but these approaches no longer work for today’s evolved workforce. What IT project leaders need is a paradigm shift: to evolve their project management processes to depend more on people and less on process or technology.

Let’s face it: IT project management as we’ve known it is changing … evolving. Today’s workforce is more social and reliant upon collaboration, more creative and technologically savvy, and more distributed than ever before. Because of this, your greatest challenge as an IT project leader is getting voluntary team member participation in the project management process. And recent research shows that using the top-down, command-and-control management approaches of the past with today’s workforce will only lead to:

1. Project information that executives and project managers can’t trust
2. An overly structured management environment that people dislike
3. A lack of confidence between project …

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