🎯 Choose your battles
✔️ Don’t do the project just for the sake of doing it
✔️ Remember that your key resources – time and budget – are limited. You and your team have to deal with a day-to-day workload as well
✔️ Choose the right problem to solve – the one that is a greater priority and has a stronger impact
✔️ The project should be clearly linked with your long term objectives : where do you want to bring your business
✔️ Have a clear view of the outcomes that you want to achieve with the project
✔️ Do not take too much too soon – avoid too many projects at the same time
➡️ Do the right things
📈 Take the time to plan your project
✔️ It can be very tempting to hurry things up, but take some time to :
✔️ Define what you are going to do
✔️ Evaluate how it will impact you, your business, your customers and partners
✔️ Plan : team, schedule, budget … and make sure that they are available
➡️ Do things right
📯Communicate
✔️ The solution, the outcome of your project can be a success only if it is accepted – by your team and your customers
✔️ Involve them even before the start : collect all opinions, calm down their fears
✔️ Answer The Question : What is in it for me ?”
✔️ Be clear about what will change once the project is done
✔️ Listen to them along the way : keep informed, resolve conflicts, celebrate successes
➡️ Ensure that everyone is onboard
✅ Keep it simple
✔️ Simple ideas, simple solutions
✔️ Clear strategies
✔️ Avoid the complexity , it’s what adds mistakes and waste
➡️ Less is more
💥 Be ready for perturbations
✔️ Each and every project is a change, so be ready for the perturbations
✔️ Accept the uncertainty : anything can go wrong during the project – lack of resources, right skills, budget, not enough support from your team …
✔️ Probably some of your projects outcomes will not work as expected
✔️ Identify potential risks and prepare responses in case something goes wrong
➡️ Accept changes and project perturbations
