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> Get Articles > Management and Best Practice > Reduce Schedule Pressure for Greater Employee Satisfaction Reduce Schedule Pressure for Greater Employee Satisfaction Download as PDFNaseem Mariam naseemmpm4all.com Project Management Made easy as 123 http://www.123projectmanagement.com ABSTRACT: To remain competetive in today's fast-paced world, companies need to upgrade their products with new features in record time. This introduces schedule pressure on the project team members. The employees long for the day when they will be able to work normal hours and gain more pleasure and satisfaction out of their jobs. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% TITLE: Reduce Schedule Pressure for Greater Employee Satisfaction AUTHOR: Naseem Mariam, Project Management Coach WORD COUNT: 261 words URL: http://www.www.123projectmanagement.com/team-building-schedule-pressure.html MAIL: mailto:team02-articlessendfree.com Conditions of use: This article may be freely published as long as (1) the article is not altered in any way, (2) the author information at the end of the article remains intact. If you use it, please notify mailto:naseemmpm4all.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Reduce Schedule Pressure for Greater Employee Satisfaction By Naseem Mariam, Project Management Coach %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% With the dot com burst of 2001 companies now demand more tangible ROI from each project that they approve. In order to remain competitive in today's feature-rich products' world, companies need to complete the implementation of even complex features in record time. This has resulted in shrinking of the project life cycle duration. In days gone by products would show enhancement roadmaps every 6 months or every year. Nowadays to maintain market share, many companies upgrade their products' features at least every quarter. All this translates to schedule pressure on the projects. Completing a 12 man-months project in 6 months with 2 people is a completely different ball game compared to completing the same 12 man-months project within 2 months with 6 people. The luxuries of re-work and hit-miss-change developments are no longer available as options to project managers when the company demands better ROI from the project. What is it that a project manager can do to ease the schedule pressure from the team members? Here are 10 ways to reduce schedule pressure: 1. Match staff with desired skill sets 2. Train staff to acquire desired skills fast 3. Involve other experts within company 4. Educate team on importance of avoiding rework 5. Brainstorm to work better:faster preparation, less rework 6. Help team implement the optimized work methods 7. Manage the assumptions and Risks (refer Article #2) 8. Mentor & counsel the individuals on the team 9. Open communication channels (a) with team (b) customer (c) Top Mgmt thru good regular reports,escalations,metrics analysis 10. Create winning teams References %%%%% The Top 10 Steps to Create Winning Teams http://www.123projectmanagement.com/team-building-winning-teams.html Copyright @ 2003 Project Dioxide Consultants (P) Ltd. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% About the Author %%%%%%%%%% Naseem Mariam is the editor of "Management that Soars" Newsletter & author of "Project Serenity - How to gain happiness and peace". Her writings draw life from her 18 years experience as software Project Manager. Let her guide you towards Faster All Round Success and a Stress Free, Joyous Life. Her free ebook and Newsletter tell You How. Subscribe with mailto:projectdioxidesendfree.com Visit her at http://www.123projectmanagement.com %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% How useful did you find this article? This article can be downloaded freely from http://www.get-articles.com and used on your website or in your ezine so long as the author is credited and their resource box left intact. You should not change any links in the article, and where the article is used on a website it's links should be clickable. Please see our terms and conditions page for more information: http://www.get-articles.com/authors-publishers-terms.php |
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