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Here’s Why You Missed Your Project Deadline

Feeling overwhelmed with too many projects, with near-impossible deadlines? Has that been happening often lately? If the answer is yes, then you need to reevaluate your way of handling and managing projects.

Here are four reasons why you’ve been unable to keep up with your project’s deadline:

Not Having a Skill-Diverse Team

Having a diverse team in terms of skills is essential for project management. A person who is good with a specific software, an individual who excels in preparing reports, a team member who is an expert with executing ideas exactly the way they were planned – when they come together and work as a team, there’s nothing that cannot be achieved.

On the other hand, if you lack a team like this, there will be few people who’ll be responsible for completing all tasks and ultimately you’ll miss your project’s deadline.

Setting Unreasonable Deadlines

You’ve been given a project that needs to be completed with a couple of weeks. From the looks of it, the project is very much doable in the time period specified by the client, but when you get into details and look into deliverables, you realize that there is no way this project can be completed in two weeks.

Don’t just start working on the project because the client wants it. Talk to him, explain the situation and bargain for more time. If not, you’re certainly going to miss the deadline, or provide below par results.

Resources are Overloaded

Do you have the required number of team members working on the project? Or are four people accommodating work for six members? If your resources are overburdened, there’s no way you can complete the project on time. They are overworked and exhausted and cannot deliver work they’re expected to. Take their load off and bring in new team members to complete projects on time.

Miscommunication and Inaccurate Information Sharing

Do you realize the importance of communication and information sharing? If you don’t, there’s nothing that can stop you from missing your project’s deadline. Keep your team members updated at all times with any new information you have or receive from the client. There are various project management software tools that help you improve communication and share information. Implement those and deliver projects on time!

One such tool is Copper Project. Our web project management software makes communication and information sharing easy and hassle free and assists you in flawless project handling.