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4 Important Tips to deliver the project successfully
In many industries, as the business grows, the number of projects eventually also increases. Therefore, it becomes necessary to understand and know how to manage project plans efficiently to ensure project delivery success.
Here are the following tips on how to deliver a project successfully:
- Communication
Communication with all the stakeholders, employees, and other people involved for a successful outcome. Everyone involved must have a common goal, which can only be accompanied if communication is clear, relevant, and accessible to all the people involved. For example, not all project workers work on-site; therefore, it is essential to consider how you communicate the project goals or requirements to these members.
One of the best ways to improve communication is team collaboration. Collaboration in a workplace involves people sharing their ideas, thoughts, and other skills to deliver the project successfully. It helps in increasing productivity, motivation and improving the quality of work. Every employee has their skills, ideas, and strengths, which can result in innovative ideas and excellent results when grouped.
Collaborative channels are an excellent way to increase communication. Team Collaboration is essential, so choose the appropriate communication channel where teams can share the status, discuss tasks. Some popular Communication tools are
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Skype
- Planning
A clear project plan and scope is crucial as it will assist your team in achieving the goals and requirements on time. For planning a project, you can use the following strategies:
- Sprint Planning
- Break down the requirements in sprint
- Estimate how much time the user sprints will take to complete
- Assign the following sprint tasks according to skills and ideas
- Plan the tasks for the next two weeks.
- Sprint Review
- Discuss the plan
- Add the descriptions and the criteria of acceptance for each story/task.
- Provide necessary details of the task to the team to help them work efficiently without any doubt.
- Daily Stand-Up
- Daily stand-ups are essential to track the team’s progress and make changes if required to avoid backlogs or further issues.
- Can do this by asking questions like “What did you do yesterday?”, “What will you do today,” “Any Blockers?” etc.
- Sprint Retrospective
- Discuss what went well during the previous sprint cycle and what can be improved for the next sprint.
- Project tracking
Project tracking helps companies, employees, and stakeholders to keep track of the progress of tasks in a project. It helps in comparing the planned progress, gearing up to speed (if required), tracking time, and identifying issues that can be a hurdle in successfully delivering the project. Some popular project tracking boards which can help in tracking the project are:
- Jira
- Trello
- Asana
- Project documentation
Project documentation is a crucial step in a project. It is the process of recording the details of a project and creating documents that are important for the completion of the project. For this, develop high-level and low-level documents. Where high-level documentation serves as an executive summary and the low level serves as a technical summary. Some popular project documentation tools are:
- Confluence
- One note
Conclusion
Successful project delivery is not easy as many people, multiple parts, different jobs, a set of skills, and other things are involved. However, when done correctly in an efficient manner, the delivery of the project can be done smoothly and successfully. Moreover, smooth delivery of a project helps maintain the highest standards of work and impress clients.