The Most Important Thing in Project Management: the Word MANAGEMENT

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The Most Important Thing in Project Management: the Word MANAGEMENT
In my opinion the most important thing in project management that many people overlook is in the word MANAGEMENT. Of all the difficulties you face,
- Project methods and tools are useful in project management to organize, to plan, to follow-up, to report but they represent no more than 30% of your challenges as a project manager.
- The other 70% concern the management of the project team, integrating the project into the overall management of the firm, the management of the stakeholders, and of course the management of the client relationship.

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		Linda Juspandi, AUSTRALIA
	17 The Hardest Thing in Project Management: Managing Cross-functional Activities I totally agree. However, management of cross functional activities is the hardest thing and are often missed... For example, security requirements (physical & electronic) often come from the client security department and not the accommodation property group. If it does come from the property group...it is a matter of them forwarding the brief directly to us. The thing is that some of the reqs are actually in conflict with one another...but unless we go through them in fine combs...we won't know. It is so time consuming (in particular with door schedules etc etc)... Anybody ever experienced this too...?

		David Dicanot Analyst, France
	12 Why Projects Fail: Project Definition and Resources, ... Hi, I share the fact management is a main part of a project success. I would ask you what is the percentage of projects which failed or delayed because of the management? I think the main reasons of project failure are inaccurate definition of objectives, the pressure of business to get all in the shortest time and bad load evaluation. The management will help to save a project or help to lead the project but root causes are in the project definition and resources choice.

		P V ANANTHARAMAIAH, India
	4 The Most Important Thing in Project Management: Motivating the Teams I too agree. Most of the time (at least 70% of the time), the project manager is fully exhausted with the internal challenges of the project team. In the case of large projects or medium sized projects, the challenge is motivating the teams across. In many industries the most valuable resources are the people. If the people are not really motivated enough and they are not really participative in the whole project cycle, the chances of becoming success are feeble.

		Xolani Nxanga, South Africa
	8 What's Most Important in Project Management? Managing the People The common thread I have picked up is that the most difficult part of any project is managing the people involved. This I believe is the area that project managers need to spend their time on. In ord (...)

		Paul D Giammalvo Management Consultant, Indonesia
	6 There is no Most Important Thing About Project Management... Management (to be effective) requires authority commensurate to the responsibility. At least in most owner companies, (as opposed to contractors) there is plenty of responsibility but rarely is there (...)

		Marcelo Charlin, Chile
	3 The Weakest Link in Project Management is the Unexpected @Paul D Giammalvo: I agree with you Paul. I would add that in my view the weakest link can be an unexpected event, a scenario which should have been considered as a possible, albeit undesirable, outco (...)

		Smeeksha, India
	7 The Most Important Thing is Project Management with Conviction The most important thing is project management with conviction. At times for managing a project we write the system, guidelines and way of working, but at times all these things don't work and we lose (...)

		Sukru MINDAS Project Manager, France
	2 What's Most Important in Project Management: Stakeholder Analysis @Xolani Nxanga : I agree with you when you say that the most difficult is managing the people involved, and for to get results we need to get commitment from stakeholders. So if we as a project manag (...)

		Hector Rodriguez, Paraguay
	1 What's Most Important in Project Management? Continuously Managing the People @Xolani Nxanga : I agree that in most cases managing the people that are involved is the key element to achieve the project objectives and goals. We should consider that people (stakeholders) are cha (...)

		Ted Garrison, United States
	8 What's Most Important in Project Management - Leadership Leadership is the key. Leadership in project management is not about control, but the ability to perceive the existing conditions (understand the existing conditions) then allocate the resources, both (...)