Neal Whitten's No-Nonsense Advice for Successful Projects

CHAPTER 28

Manage to Your Top Three Problems

Pop Quiz: What are your project’s top three problems?

If you don’t immediately know the answer, then you are not as effective a project manager as you should be and need to be. The No.1 reason projects run into trouble is that the project manager and other project members lose sight of the problems that need the most attention—the top three problems.

The No. 1 reason projects are in trouble is the failure of the project manager—and project members—to focus on their top three problems

All project members should know—and actively be managing to—their top three problems

I have observed many hundreds of projects, either as a project member or as an outsider. These projects ranged from less than a handful ...