Project Risks: Challenges in Project Management

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Project Risks:
Project management is considered to be a comprehensive as well as complex field of
work which is seen to be requiring extensive practice as well as skills, knowledge and expertise.
Even after the existence of the plethora of resources as well as certifications and expert advice
the VoIP/G-suite project still is seen to be associated with facing a lot of challenges (Kerzner &
Kerzner, 2017). Each project is considered to be unique in terms of the scope, objectives and the
requirements of the clients and in addition to this there is no existence of any kind of common
template for making the project development life cycle become easy, and by analysing the entire
scenario five major challenges have been identified and they have been listed below:
Unclear or Undefined goals:
The unclear or undefined goals might be associated with acting as one of the major
reason behind the failure of the VoIP/G-suite project and this might happen if the objectives and
the milestones of the project are not defined in a clear way for the purpose of measuring the
progress.
For this reason the process related to setting the short term as well as the long term goal
of the project needs to be done efficient as well as thought in a well-mannered way (Meredith,
Mantel Jr & Shafer, 2017). The absence of any kind of clearly defined goals is associated with
leading to various kind of unnecessary confusions as well as miscommunications but might be
also associated with leading to missing of those milestones which are very much important.
Milestones are associated with helping in measuring of the team as well as the project
progress and in absence of ant properly defined goals, the project manager would be bound to
lose a track of the project progress in terms of the cost as well as time.

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Inadequate communication:
Inadequate is another biggest barrier in the process of successful implementation of the
technology. Any kind of miscommunication or lack in communication is capable of having a dire
impact upon the project as well as upon the team collaboration. In case of the VoIP/G-suite
project the communication needs to be done on a timely manner which should be transparent in
nature (Larson & Gray, 2017). Despite of the nature of communication that weather it is one-on-
one or daily scrum or weekly sprints, the team associated with the VoIP/G-suite project should
necessarily be at the par with the exact situation of the project along with each and every thing
which is seen to be coming with it that is the issues, the prevailing risks and the requirements of
the clients.
Unrealistic deadlines:
Meeting the deadline and completing the project is another major challenge which is
faced by almost each and every project. Delays are generally considered to be normal while
achieving the different milestones in a project but still it is possible to prevent the VoIP/G-suite
project from going off the track. This can be done by means of monitoring the entire project from
the very beginning (Heagney, 2016). In addition to this it is also very important to keep the
customers in synchronized state and in case if there is sudden request from the customer related
to certain changes then it would be associated with posing certain type of threats related to the
timely completion of the project. Usage of the timing activities are capable of making huge
contributions in helping out the project stay on schedule.
Earned value management:
Earned value management is associated with helping the project managers in measuring
the performance of the project. This is the systematic project management process which is used