5 Most Common Mistakes in Managing Multiple Projects: Learn to Avoid Them (Part 5)

Andrew Filev , Sunday, May 16, 2010 comment Comments (7)


Mistake #5: Poor interactions within your team and with clients


The last, but not least, most common mistake project managers make when managing multiple projects is inefficient communications. Poor communications within a team lead to misunderstandings and therefore to mistakes in project work. If your project lacks communication with clients, you and your client might end up with two different project visions as a result.  In any case, miscommunication will result in loss of time and money, as well as in increasing your stress.
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5 Most Common Mistakes in Managing Multiple Projects: Learn to Avoid Them (Part 4)

Andrew Filev , Friday, April 30, 2010 comment Comments (14)
Mistake #4: Turning from a project leader into a project secretary

Now, if you want to get the up-to-date information (winning strategy #2) all in one place (winning strategy #3), you are prone to mistake#4: turning into a robot, constantly copying information back and forth.
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5 Most Common Mistakes in Managing Multiple Projects: Learn to Avoid Them (Part 2)

Andrew Filev , Sunday, March 28, 2010 comment Comments (8)
This is the second post in the series about 5 most common mistakes people make in managing multiple projects simultaneously. Before you read this piece, please take a look at 5 Most Common Mistakes in Managing Multiple Projects: Learn to Avoid Them (Part 1).
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5 Most Common Mistakes in Managing Multiple Projects: Learn to Avoid Them (Part 1)

Andrew Filev , Monday, March 22, 2010 comment Comments (12)
Have you ever wondered why some managers seem to be natural born multitaskers and run 10+ projects smoothly, when others seem to be having a hard time running multiple projects? Leading a company that offers one of the most popular project management software products on the market, I hear a lot of project management war stories and spend a lot of time analyzing the bottlenecks in project management and various ways to overcome them. During my analysis, I thought it would be a good idea to share those war stories with you to help you improve your management skills. So I’ve come up with a list of the 5 most common mistakes managers make when managing multiple projects. In addition, I accompanied them with the 5 strategies that will help you become a more productive project manager who can easily complete several projects on time and on budget. I also decided to split the list into five shorter parts, so that it would be more convenient for you to read. Here’s the first part of this series.

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Andrew Filev

Andrew Filev is an experienced project manager and a successful entrepreneur. He has been managing software teams since 2001 with the help of new-generation collaboration and management applications. The Project Management 2.0 blog reflects his views on changes going on in contemporary project management, thanks to the influence of collaborative web-based technologies. More >>

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