Project management isn’t just about managing projects. It is a collaborative effort of stakeholders, ranging from in-house teams to outsourced partners.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. Project management isn’t just about managing projects. It is a collaborative effort of stakeholders, ranging from in-house teams to outsourced partners. In all fairness, the latter is a more complicated space since an outsider in a possibly different time zone has to access your data, processes, and teams. While outsourcing digital product development projects, enterprises have a long road to trek. Issues from lack of credibility to unclear objectives are directly responsible for a failed engagement and ultimately a sub-standard quality of end output. If your outsourcing partner is not performing as per expectations, the fault may be at your end. Here are the top mistakes that project managers knowingly or unknowingly commit while hiring product development partners. The core job function of managers is to strategically divide the project scope and then manage the lifecycle towards seamless product delivery. Yet most managers struggle with organizing a development process and delegate to different teams scattered across time zones with an unclear or overlapping scope of work. Amidst increasing demand for contemporary technologies such as IoT, Big Data, and AI, project management ought to sustain the conventional practice of setting long-term and short-term goals while embracing agile at every level. Therefore, setting milestones, deadlines, and strategies for every team while monitoring the aerial view is what managers should start with. One size fits all doesn’t work anymore. Given the swathe of digital solutions available, on-demand customization is a basic expectation from all products. To achieve that, managers must include fragmentation, no matter how small the development process is. By dividing the project development task into different numbers of micro-projects, delegation and tracking the progress becomes easier. It delivers a clearer view about the areas that need more focus while others that are less critical. Since every project is a totally different ecosystem, it is essential to plan and design a new breakdown strategy for every project. Most managers try to implement the same template for every project and thus end up creating more issues.
