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What are the critical things a project manager must focus to the senior management?

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Last Update: July 02, 2009 Asked by: RajivPrasad

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Submitted by: SomGollakota

1. Overall Project Health (Schedule, Budget) - preferably in colors of Green, Yellow, Red
2. True and accurate status of the project, in clear and concise terms, including high level project schedule, and accomplishments
3. Critical and High Issues that require senior management attention, what is your plan to address them, and any action items for the management
4. Critical and High Risks that the management must be aware of, what is your mitigation plan, when they would become issues, and what, if any, help do you need from the senior management
5. Next Steps/Next Major Milestones to the project

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February 06, 2007 06:24:57

Krishna

RE: What are the critical things a project manager mus...

Status reporting Make sincere effort to resolve the issue

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February 28, 2007 01:21:20

Jyoti Raoot

Member Since: February 2007 Contribution: 2

RE: What are the critical things a project manager mus...

Critical aspects I believe shall be : 1) Presignal if there would be variations to the Cost of the Project identifying the cause 2)People been the most important backbone of the organization bring up people issues.3)Data/Information security issues if any.

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March 18, 2007 08:48:26

jaysan

Member Since: September 2006 Contribution: 4

RE: What are the critical things a project manager mus...

There are many things but in major few things which should be shown in apporpritate colour to get Sr. mgmnt attention.
- Expecting/foresee any delay in the project completion timelines.
- Resource constraints in project or any critical resource crunch
- Project going over budget
- Any business critical issue which can't be covered in current deliverable and mandatory for go live.

thanks
sanjay

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June 18, 2008 14:13:09

snepak

Member Since: June 2008 Contribution: 5

RE: What are the critical things a project manager must focus to the senior management?

Make sure that

Right information flows to the right people at the right time.

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May 08, 2009 22:28:45

SomGollakota

Member Since: June 2007 Contribution: 48

RE: What are the critical things a project manager must focus to the senior management?

1. Overall Project Health (Schedule Budget) - preferably in colors of Green
Yellow Red

2. True and accurate status of the project in clear and concise terms
including high level project schedule and accomplishments

3. Critical and High Issues that require senior management attention what is
your plan to address them and any action items for the management

4. Critical and High Risks that the management must be aware of what is your
mitigation plan when they would become issues and what if any help do you
need from the senior management

5. Next Steps/Next Major Milestones to the project

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July 02, 2009 12:21:44

abdulmunaf

Member Since: June 2009 Contribution: 1

RE: What are the critical things a project manager must focus to the senior management?

At the time of project planning a communication plan must be prepared with participation of senior managment who are also the stakeholders in the project.

The details include:
a) what are senior managments communication expectation? what they want to be communicated and how?
b) Set Criticalility levels and who is in charge of decision making
c) Get the thresholds for 3 critical dependencies (Time scope and Cost)

Once these are set any deviation from the plan must be first worked by the project manager within the team within his scope and only update the management with what was asked and not how it is achieved?

Any major issues should be brought to notice of management based on what was part of communication plan. This will not let important matter slip through the cracks.

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