Project Management can present a variety of challenges, with internal and external factors often having an impact on keeping projects on budget and within deadlines... Planning and communication can play a major part in keeping projects on track. Here are InterQuest's 5 Top Tips for Task Project Management.

1. InterQuest Group’s 5 Top Tips for Effective Task Project Management

2. TIP 1: DEFINE OBJECTIVES
Before starting the project you should always make sure
that you have a thorough understanding of stakeholder
expectations and that all parties are in agreement of
exactly what the project’s main objectives are. You should
establish measurable success criteria, including deadlines,
budgets, and kpi’s. Make sure all the project’s details are
fully understood to create the foundations for a project
plan.
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3. TIP 1: IDENTIFY REQUIREMENTS
It is important to have a full understanding of the skills and
resources required to achieve these. Keep the project’s
goals and tasks in mind when assembling the project team,
ensuring that your team is equipped with the necessary
skills and expertise. When defining your project with
stakeholders it is important to have a clear understanding
of the resources and personnel likely to be required to
achieve all goals.

4. TIP 3: SET MILESTONES
Identify the key milestones in your project. Plan your
project with four key sections in mind: initiation, planning,
execution and closure. Consider the timeframes within
these and the different tasks that each section requires of
you and your team. Planning each step of your project in
advance will help you to ensure that each section is
completed correctly and on schedule.
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5. TIP 4: MANAGE RISKS
Identifying potential risks at the beginning is a great way
of ensuring that problems do not arise during your project.
This way, if problems do arise you and your team will know
how to respond to them. Evaluate the potential risk and
consult the other members of the project team, taking all
risks into account when setting deadlines and managing
the expectations of stakeholders.

6. TIP 5: COMMUNICAATION IS KEY
2-way communication plays a vital part in managing any
project. Ensure that you are managing communication so
that you are fully aware of everything happening in your
project. Also, ensure that the project team are fully aware
of all activity in the project relevant to them – this way no
one will be working blindly. Hold regular meetings to
update on the different aspects of the project to ensure
that everyone is in regular communication and on the
same page with the latest activity within each task.

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InterQuest Group plc is a specialist IT and analytics recruitment group providing contract and permanent
services within niche disciplines globally.
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As specialists in contract, permanent IT and analytics recruitment, the InterQuest Group trades as distinctly
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