Challenges in recent times - Work from home

 

The present scenario developed, where every industry, business, and individual is suffering due to the Corona virus 2019 threat. Governments are doing locked downs/shutdowns. People are restricted to their homes. Offices are closed. Those who are not in the profession of saving lives are closed. We all have to support this as there is nothing important then saving lives.

A tough scenario, definitely not going to be forever for sure but organizations are making sure to pass this time and trying to minimize the risk of financial impacts. Projects are at risk. Everyone is sent to work from home incurred additional challenges to companies.

In this situation, forcing some challenges to organizations as given below but not limited to:

• Timely Delivery
• Reporting Requirements
• Motivation
• Delayed customer invoices

The organizations, who are more to work from office culture, having challenges in coordinating, implementing and adopting the new culture work from home, however, there is no other option.

Managers need to ensure to minimize these challenges using some of the basic steps from project management or PMBOK. Let’s keep to the basics of setting weekly targets, breaking them into daily and tracking religiously. Set some ground rules to have a daily stand up (for those still not Agile) and end of the day have a Daily work summary.

Once you have the consolidated daily work summary spend some time reviewing the output and highlight the common issues. The common issues could be requirements, support, network or it could be the availability of resources. Set the resolution plan for issues and plan for the next day.

Speak to your team daily keep them motivated to praise the good work and do not forget to give input to improve.

I hope to see things better soon till then lets work towards mitigating the business risks and ensure minimal impact on deliveries.