From top (most challenging) to bottom: 1. HR and Team Issues 2. Authority and support from top management. 3. Scope Creep 4. Budget control 5. Communication with stakeholders
Name your top 5 in order, please Saving Changes...
#1 for me is predictable resource availability. In spite of the mountain of evidence regarding the evils of multitasking, I almost never work with project teams that have sufficient resources so the vicious cycle of unsustainable overtime leading to burnout leading to fewer resources persists...
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Scott WeglerSenior Project Manager| Members Cooperative Credit UnionDuluth, Mn, United States
#1 is similar to Kiron Bondale - scarce resources from a staffing perspective.
#2 Budget Control
#3 Scope Creep
#4 Communication with stakeholders - or making sure you have all of the correct stakeholders.
#5 HR and Team issues. Saving Changes...
Resources - man power - who owns them !
The project manager shares responsibility for the project with a number of individual functional managers - therefore shared responsibilities can include assigning priorities and tasks to individual team members. But functional managers still make the final decisions on who will work on projects and how much time can be dedicated to project tasks\assignments it is a fine balance as the organisation still requires ongoing operations specifically within IT Infrastructure. Saving Changes...
Getting the right people and managing their conflicts and politics in remote sites can be very challenging and in some extreme cases could be life-threatening. Saving Changes...