When Projects Become Unmanageable - Part 1
A Project is a cooperative, collaborative and coordinated (i.e., managed by a Team Leader ) team effort to achieve a defined objective , within a certain time frame using defined resources . The responsibilities subsumed under the Project by the team (to get to the desired and anticipated objective) constitute its total scope - the Project Scope . Within that Project Scope, are the roles and responsibilities of each of the team's individual members - each member has an Individual Scope , specifically defined within the greater Project Scope . Projects become unmanageable for number of reasons : Project Scope Creep ; Individual Scope Creep ; Poor communications, monitoring and feedback among team members, and/or between the team leader and his or her members - situation reports and progress reports serve a strategic purpose in keeping the Project and team members all within the scope...but just as importantly , they serve to inform the participants of where their performance ma...