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Joelle Bejjani PM| N/A Dubai, United Arab Emirates
What would you say are the main pain points in a managing a project in a SMB? Internal or external? consultant or industry related, etc...
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Anupam India
stakeholder, scope, schedule, resource, budget, quality, risk
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Eduard Hernandez
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Product Operations Program Manager Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain
Add communication and procurement to the list
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Rajan Hariramabadran Varada Delivery Manager| Talisma Corporation Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Scope, Cost, Time, Risk, Resources and Quality are the constraints to the project - not necessarily pain points.
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2 replies by Anupam and NIVALDO FERREIRA
Nov 08, 2016 4:09 AM
Anupam
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Yes these are constraints. So what are pain points?

1. Changing Business Objective
2. Delay in project completion
3. Waste resource
4. Dependency
5. Duplicate projects
6. Poor decision making, communication gap
7. Monitoring and controlling
8. Procurement

Thanks!! :)
Nov 08, 2016 5:55 AM
NIVALDO FERREIRA
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Perhaps, when the deliverables do not meet our client's expectations. That is really a unconfortalbe situation for a project manager....and for the client, for sure. How to recover form this situation? better, how to avoid to be in this situation?
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Anupam India
Nov 08, 2016 3:07 AM
Replying to Rajan Hariramabadran Varada
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Scope, Cost, Time, Risk, Resources and Quality are the constraints to the project - not necessarily pain points.
Yes these are constraints. So what are pain points?

1. Changing Business Objective
2. Delay in project completion
3. Waste resource
4. Dependency
5. Duplicate projects
6. Poor decision making, communication gap
7. Monitoring and controlling
8. Procurement

Thanks!! :)
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1 reply by Rajan Hariramabadran Varada
Nov 08, 2016 6:09 AM
Rajan Hariramabadran Varada
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I agree... If we may add ambiguous Contract/SOW to the list.
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NIVALDO FERREIRA IS Project Manager| ABB Osasco, Sp, Brazil
Nov 08, 2016 3:07 AM
Replying to Rajan Hariramabadran Varada
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Scope, Cost, Time, Risk, Resources and Quality are the constraints to the project - not necessarily pain points.
Perhaps, when the deliverables do not meet our client's expectations. That is really a unconfortalbe situation for a project manager....and for the client, for sure. How to recover form this situation? better, how to avoid to be in this situation?
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Rajan Hariramabadran Varada Delivery Manager| Talisma Corporation Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Nov 08, 2016 4:09 AM
Replying to Anupam
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Yes these are constraints. So what are pain points?

1. Changing Business Objective
2. Delay in project completion
3. Waste resource
4. Dependency
5. Duplicate projects
6. Poor decision making, communication gap
7. Monitoring and controlling
8. Procurement

Thanks!! :)
I agree... If we may add ambiguous Contract/SOW to the list.
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Stakeholders Resistence is a major pain on Projects.
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AKSHAY JAIN Planning Group Leader| YOKOGAWA, Bahrain Gwalior, Mp, India
Managing a project is balance among cost, schedule & quality, to have an optimum mix of these three you need to control each & every aspect of project in right proportion.
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Deyou Zhang Program Manager| China GF Malaria Program Shanghai, Shanghai, China, Mainland
lack of reasonable evaluation of schedule\effort\cost\resource\success criteria should be one, right?
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Bruce Gay Principal Consultant| Astrevo Labs Pittsburgh, Pa, United States
Joelle - Back in August I posted a question on the board asking about the "top challenges as a Project Manager".

http://www.projectmanagement.com/discussio...roject-Manager-

Here is a summary list of the top challenges:

* Scope Management / Scope Creep
* Stakeholder Management/Commitment
* Poor (or inefficient) communication
* Benefit Realization (Are we building the right thing that brings value to the organization?)
* Lack of Accountability
* Unrealistic goals
* Resource scarcity / Shortage of expertise & skills

-Bruce
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