Project Objectives Management

This book is about a profound but often neglected challenge of project teams, consisting of their daily struggle with prioritization. There is often a conflict between the customer imposed targets and expectations for a project, and the remaining targets and expectations of other stakeholders, in particular within their own organization. This book introduces a dedicated method to provide the project supplier with a solution to close this gap and provide the most possible benefit to secure the future of its organization.

At the start of a project, various formal targets and expectations are established and captured in a contract or project charter, such as managing the project within available time and budget, and providing the expected project result to its customer.

However, in addition and during the project, various other stakeholders impose their – sometimes informal – targets and expectations on the project as well, such as strict cost claim management, training of new employees on the project or trial of new innovative products or services. Usually such targets and expectations are combined with day-to-day challenges on the project, such as internal and external communication, unexpected changes, cost increases, continuous competition with other projects for (human) resources, or even private circumstances of project team members.

And all these challenges seem even bigger at the supplier of the project, where important targets and expectations (many long-term) of its own organization are often overshadowed by the urgent (usually short-term) targets and expectations of the customer of the project. This books helps you navigate this complicated situation inherent to project management.

What You Will Learn
- An in depth understanding of project objectives management
- How to handle day-to-day challenges on the project, such as communication, unexpected changes, cost increases and more
- How to manage the formal and informal targets and project goals

Who This Book is For
The typical readers of this book are first of all project management professionals with various levels of skill and experience working at a small to medium sized project supplier, facing the typical day-to-day challenges with managing project objectives and looking for a solution.