Project management can be a very challenging work that needs a high level of knowledge and expertise to manage the projects and deliver it with high quality as per the set timeline. But despite having all completed the project within the stipulated time frame and withing the budget they often fail and do not deliver the expected results. So let’s explore some of the general project management issues:

Poor Planning-
The foremost reason for a project to fail is the lack of proper planning and execution. So what leads to poor planning of a project? This includes not having a proper business plan, not breaking down the development phases, lack of task prioritizations, also using the traditional project models, and not following current agile project management trends.

Unrealistic Goals-
This is the trait followed by many project managers which leads to the maximum number of project failures. Just to make the clients happy they tend to set up unrealistic goals without even setting up the scope, short-term, and long-term goals and thus often lose track of how the project is proceeding with regards to time and cost.

Insufficient Communication-
Inadequate or miscommunication can impact team collaboration and project delivery. The communication must be prompt and mostly transparent to avoid any barriers to project implementation. The client requirements and changes must be discussed clearly in the daily scrum meetings or weekly sprints. This helps the team to address any major issues or modifications early in the project than waiting until the project is close to its deadline. According to a report every year, poor communication costs small businesses with under 100 employees $420,000 and companies with over 100,000 employees over $62 million. (Stone, 2020)

Improper Expenses-
Inaccurate project estimates are one of the common parameters for project failures. The improper estimates include a lack of accurate budget estimation with regards to equipment, resources, software, contingencies, travel, consultancy fees, and many other purchases. This budgeting task is one of the major road black sot successful implementations.

Risk Mismanagement-
Even the well-planned project often fails so in this case how do we handle the unforeseen risks? We need to have a foresight of identifying the” what-if” scenarios and building proper contingency plans against it. In this case, the project manager must be vigilant to come up with a plan b strategy if he notices the project isn’t going as planned.

Unrealistic Deadlines-
The project manager gives unrealistic deadlines to the project teams which is often impossible to achieve, this severely affects the team’s morale and the quality of the end product delivered. An unrealistic deadline puts a lot of pressure on the team and often leads to project failure. So for this, the project manager needs to identify the team’s capacity and accordingly negotiate the project deadline after prioritizing all the project tasks and setting up milestones.

So these are some of the general issues project management issues that need to taken care of to have a smooth and quality project delivery on time.