Change Management

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WHAT CAN WE DO (I.E. ACTIONS, LEARNING) TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE AN EFFECTIVE RESONANT PROJECT MANAGER.

Now, how can an understanding of “RESONANCE” help PROJECT MANAGERS Engage with project staff and stakeholders?

RETHWIK GOURAVARAM, our team member who worked in a PMO for GAR Infrastructure Group, he explained about one of his experience being a CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGER in the company. From his experience, we would like to share the following case; he developed a number of commercial projects for the organization during the incorporation with Speed ventures, a partner company of GAR Group. After the first few of these projects he developed, remarked that one phase of the project which created longer in terms of both budget and schedule. The phase was known as “Design & Development.” This is a very general term that often included such competencies as planning, design analysis, as well as other related activities. We asked ourselves the question “Why does design analysis create such difficulties for project teams?”

What RETHWIK GOURAVARAM explained was, “The project teams, no matter how experienced in commercial projects, underestimate what it will take to convert the plan from the initial planning, into fully compatible and usable for the final design. Typically, the project where plan analysis would have to be initiated was mistaken.”

How did he correct this situations and learn from previous project mistakes in such a way that future project managers on commercial projects could fully assume the scope and resources required for an on a budget, on schedule completion of design analysis and development? Was a big question for us after listening to the case!

Solution was, they created a Lessons Learned document that would strike a “resonance” in any equipped project team. The project manager only had to review the Project Lesson with his team and his project executives in order to effect a full and complete conclusion of the problem, so that the team could understand and strongly act during the project’s accomplishment. By covering all the topics of planning, scheduling, budgeting, competencies, personal expertise, the inclusion of all known types of design weaknesses, the project manager would able to address any question that the project team might have regarding the plan.

Striking this “resonance” was necessary to future on the budget, on schedule production in the Commercial design platform.

We think, this could be an example of being an efficient resonant project manager.

Thank you.

Citations:

http://www.pmi.org/learning/library/resonant-project-manager-9656

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042813004631