what's the biggest challenges face project managers during covid19 disease pandemic and how should they deal with it specially if some customer worries about there business? Saving Changes...
Safety, supply chain, and legislation are probably the top three.
You need to ensure procedures are in place to keep your project team (and those who interact with them) safe.
Global supply chains are subject to volatility and delays (where I am in the UK, this is further exacerbated by Brexit). This is due to the strain on the system caused by the demand for PPE, additional safety practices including social distancing, and the reduction in the workforce due to sickness and self-isolation.
You'll need to ensure your project environment remains compliant with local legislation. You'll need to be aware of travel restrictions, lockdowns, and mandatory notification processes.
Keep your stakeholder/customer informed throughout and be as transparent as you can about the risks, and the strategies you are putting in place to mitigate them. Work with them to ensure you have a mutual understanding of risk appetite and risk budget. Depending on the commercial agreement, you may wish to explore options for transferring risk, or sharing risk with the customer. Saving Changes...
For me, it's communication. I like to communicate with stakeholders and team members face-to-face, and spur of the moment. Although internet calls / meetings work, they don't work as well (to me) as MBWA.
You can establish a better person-to-person connection and communication and relationship when you are next to someone. And it's easier for everyone (including me) to be their genuine self, which leads to more honest and forthright communication - and honest communication gives me a better chance to find out where the hiccups might lie and where I can help the project proactively.
I think it comes down to general uncertainty, where project management is intended to reduce uncertainty.
Government reactions to the virus can suddenly halt projects, or drastically change the business case. Markets can suddenly change as the demand from consumers adjusts to the current reality. There has been a lot of management turnover from retirements and consolidation, and the new bosses want to do things their own way.
All of that affects the underlying rationale for projects, the ways they are managed, and the availability of the tools and services we need to complete projects.
There is uncertainty in any project, or they wouldn't need us to manage them. Now the uncertainty is the norm, rather than set of risks we try to manage. Saving Changes...
Larry MinerFounder and Sr. Project Management of Decision Memory Systems| Decision Memory SystemsBath, Oh, United States
Change the word to project management....
Uncertainty principle, also called Heisenberg uncertainty principle or indeterminacy principle, statement, articulated (1927) by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg, that the position and the velocity of an object cannot both be measured exactly, at the same time, even in theory. Saving Changes...
Here in Belgium, we were struck hard with the pandemics, still are. As I work in the flower distribution business, we've been considered non essential. So the biggest challenge was changing the way we reach our customers, and communicating in real time with them. Not only did we need to implement "no contact" pickups, we needed to modernize our IT infrastructure very quickly to be able to reach our clients everywhere in Belgium.
for me, communication, procurement, and bringing technical staff from abroad or from another location to the project site were the issue with me. Saving Changes...
