Align Stakeholders – In many cases the Professional

In many cases, the Professional Services Project Manager is fully responsible, not authorized, for ensuring that certain tasks and milestones are achieved by client teams, as they are also responsible for their own tasks. Linking tasks, milestones, efforts, and requirements to the client’s technical management allows the Project Manager to synchronize with the client’s management and ensure that resource requirements are communicated and scheduled for time and dates. The organization of external client team meetings allows both teams to meet and review the project, jointly addressing issues, risks and milestones and following an identical execution plan. By organizing internal meetings, the professional services team can discuss the project, issues, risks and tasks related to each stage and coordinate them with the project as a whole. Since access to local facilities is limited, the client’s internal teams are more actively involved in the design and execution process, providing access and critical internal knowledge to the project. One of the best solutions? Strong and planned communication between professional services organization, stakeholders and client teams to ensure transparency, resource planning, milestones, tasks and dependencies. Establishing internal and external communication with the client becomes even more important in situations where the execution team relies on the knowledge and access of the client team to perform specific tasks and steps. This allows them not only to plan their internal business needs, but also to plan their team’s support to the project together with the project manager. Transparency is also critical, not only to build trust, but also to ensure that the client’s stakeholders fully understand what resources – internal and external – are needed to complete each task and reach each milestone, and what the overall effort is. In addition to discussing milestones, budget, issues and risks, project managers need to extend the discussion to the allocation of resources for the client’s project. This creates management and resource problems that many professional service teams have never faced before at VIDOC-19. Project managers also need to coordinate their actions with the customer’s technical managers. Voices on Project Management offers ideas, advice, recommendations and personal accounts from project managers from different regions and industries. VIDOC has created many problems in the field of telework for professional service organizations and teams of commercial companies. This will help to keep the project and teams on a planned level and within budget.