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

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Krishna

  • Feb 6th, 2007
 

Status reporting Make sincere effort to resolve the issue

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Jyoti Raoot

  • Feb 28th, 2007
 

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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jaysan

  • Mar 18th, 2007
 

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.

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sanjay 

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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

abdulmunaf

  • Jul 2nd, 2009
 

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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