issues in project management – P3
There are 7 issues that may happen in a project management these are:
1.effects of changing external factors
2. monitoring progress
3.taking corrective actions where necessary
4. communications
5.working within relevant guidelines (internal and external) and legislation;
6.dealing with conflict
7.impact of project outputs on other systems eg staff, organisational structures
External Factors
When you are managing a project you have to take in to consideration the external factors, for example the MMR vaccine in 1998 to 2007 was given out to babies at a young age to prevent them from getting measles. This vaccine was abandoned when a report came out that the vaccine had a very slight chance of giving your child brain damage, a lot of parents said no they don’t want to give their child this vaccine due to this reason. Because of this a lot of children died from measles because of a report that was leaked. There are many different examples of external factors for example if you were building a house for a client and you say that it is going to take you two months, but you didn’t take in to consideration that the weather maybe bad then the project will go over the arranged date.
Monitoring progress
Monitoring is the systematic gathering and analyzing of information that will help measure progress on an aspect of your project. On going checks against progress over time may include monitoring water quality in a catchment or monetary expenditure against the project budget. Monitoring is not evaluation as such but is usually a critical part of your evaluation process and should therefore be included at your project planning stage. For example the English chairman of the FA stated “i promise that England will win the 2022 world cup”. This was a bad statement to make as he doesn’t know anything about what will happen that far in the future. He cant make that statement because there have only been 14 chairmen and only 3 of them have been in that place for long enough to actually make the allegations that he has made. He doesn’t know if he will be chairmen at that time.
Dealing with conflict
When dealing with conflict for example t
ime pressures vs work hours pressure, you have to find the middle of both of these because you don’t want to give your staff very low hours and then your time pressure will take a very long time. You will also have to think about time vs Money pressure, this is just you have to think about how much money you are going to put in to the project but with the amount of money how long it will take, you don’t want to spend a little and your project take a lot of time.
Law
If you buy an old house and plan on renovating it but you find bats living in the attic then the law states that you cant do anything to disturb the bats. This can cause major problems in a building project because there are unforeseen problems. But you can also use the law to your advantage as if you were going to build a full economical house then this will effect the price of it by about 20% cheaper as you will not have to pay tax on the house and you wont have to pay tax on the equipment to build the house.
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