Solid Planning is a Vital Component of a Successful Project
Regardless of project size, there needs to be a long term vision for any online effort to be worthwhile. Even a small project still has to have a direction, and it’s the job of the project manager to steward the process resources to reach the ultimate goal.
For larger projects with multiple components and increased personnel, it is vital to stewardship for the project manager to be able to communicate clearly and effectively with everyone involved on all levels. Someone must hold the overarching vision, or the created result will never match the original intention.
Project management is front-loaded planning, followed by due diligence to make sure that the plan is executable. Firming up the budgetary needs in order to fully execute the project as an assessment of total real costs requires experience and a level of objectivity that is often overlooked in online business planning, which casts a reflection in the number of failed or subsistence-level enterprises found online.
All of the moving pieces in a project must be made to dance to the manager’s tune, and not the fragmented agendas of the component players… otherwise the project will not execute in a timely manner, if at all. Most of the project manager’s time is spent in editing, proofing, or testing the work of programmers, designers, and writers. Programmers by nature are linear thinkers, often they have a hard time with abstract concepts, so they just program “how” they are told to do it. Left to their own devices, the way they get to their current objectives may be completely incompatible with future project modules or component logic, so this must be handled properly from the beginning.
If this sounds like the voice of wisdom, then you are hearing well. We’ve already learned these things the hard, painful, expensive way with our own e-commerce businesses. While they were valuable lessons, we don’t particularly care to re-experience them, nor would we like our clients to suffer for someone else’s lack of project management experience. As there will always be unforseeable events and issues to be dealt with in any project, having a seasoned project manager will not only reduce their impact when they do occur, but will be good prevention for those things that can be prevented with solid stewardship.
Project management is an area of core specialization at LinkScience, and we have several strategies and custom link building plans that we can implement to assist online business owners get the visibility they need to succeed. If you would like to discuss your project, please feel free to use our online contact form, and you’ll hear from us as soon as possible.