Maximizing Your Efforts

It could be maximizing your marketing efforts, recruitment efforts, working out efforts or even cleaning, branding or whatever kinds of efforts. But as we are specifically talking about project managers, I will assume you maximizing the project management efforts.

I would give here some generic pointers to maximize your project management efforts as follows:

1. Plan it – Whatever project management effort you are trying to undertake, you must plan it and schedule it very carefully. This will act as your baseline and will help you in later steps.
2. Make it Habitual – Follow your plan as a habit or like an SOP. Remember, you have absolutely no authority in yourself to not follow what is in the plan.
3. Diversify – In case things do not turn out as planned, have a change control mechanism in place to diversify creatively, re-plan and re-baseline your plan, before you start following it again with same vigour and rigour.
4. Find Accountability – Check back to see what has happened, analyse the situations carefully and methodologically, and apportion appropriate action.
5. Log It – Record everything for future guidance and lesson learnt.