{"id":875,"date":"2022-07-06T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wanhow.com\/projectmanagercoach\/?p=875"},"modified":"2022-07-16T12:06:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T19:06:19","slug":"whats-the-2-3-and-4-biggest-challenges-project-managers-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wanhow.com\/projectmanagercoach\/whats-the-2-3-and-4-biggest-challenges-project-managers-face\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the #2, #3, and #4 biggest challenges project managers face?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wanhow.com\/projectmanagercoach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220628-The-Biggest-Pain-Point-for-PMs-Part-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-880\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wanhow.com\/projectmanagercoach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220628-The-Biggest-Pain-Point-for-PMs-Part-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wanhow.com\/projectmanagercoach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220628-The-Biggest-Pain-Point-for-PMs-Part-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wanhow.com\/projectmanagercoach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220628-The-Biggest-Pain-Point-for-PMs-Part-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wanhow.com\/projectmanagercoach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220628-The-Biggest-Pain-Point-for-PMs-Part-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wanhow.com\/projectmanagercoach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220628-The-Biggest-Pain-Point-for-PMs-Part-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.wanhow.com\/projectmanagercoach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220628-The-Biggest-Pain-Point-for-PMs-Part-2-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You already know that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wanhow.com\/projectmanagercoach\/whats-the-biggest-pain-point-for-project-managers\/\">the biggest pain point for PMs is stakeholder management<\/a>. What comes after?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my survey of project managers, the #2 biggest pain point was mentioned by one in two respondents. It is resource management, and it sounds like:<br>\u2022&nbsp;it&#8217;s hard to get resources for projects; we&#8217;re always competing for resources because there is no good prioritization process.<br>\u2022&nbsp;no good process to onboard project team members.<br>\u2022&nbsp;not much control over internal and external resources in a loose matrix organization.<br>\u2022&nbsp;we don&#8217;t have the right people on the projects. Availability is an issue. We try to stretch people across projects instead of resourcing appropriately.<br>\u2022&nbsp;key resource availability is an issue, especially on the critical path.<br>\u2022&nbsp;lack of resources. Team members can drop off suddenly, reducing capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The #3 most common problem faced by project managers is communications. PMs complained about:<br>\u2022&nbsp;lack of consistent communications; team members suddenly go dark and stop communicating.<br>\u2022&nbsp;slow responses. It could take a long time to get a response, resulting in delays.<br>\u2022&nbsp;lost playing phone tag.<br>\u2022&nbsp;no single source of truth to converge decisions in one spot. This is a major lack.<br>\u2022&nbsp;not communicating the importance and the impact of decisions.<br>\u2022&nbsp;communications is the core of any dysfunction.<br>\u2022&nbsp;ineffective communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wanhow.com\/projectmanagercoach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220629-The-Biggest-Pain-Point-for-PMs-Part-3-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wanhow.com\/projectmanagercoach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220629-The-Biggest-Pain-Point-for-PMs-Part-3-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wanhow.com\/projectmanagercoach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220629-The-Biggest-Pain-Point-for-PMs-Part-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wanhow.com\/projectmanagercoach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220629-The-Biggest-Pain-Point-for-PMs-Part-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wanhow.com\/projectmanagercoach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220629-The-Biggest-Pain-Point-for-PMs-Part-3-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.wanhow.com\/projectmanagercoach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220629-The-Biggest-Pain-Point-for-PMs-Part-3-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.wanhow.com\/projectmanagercoach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/20220629-The-Biggest-Pain-Point-for-PMs-Part-3-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The #4 most common challenge project managers have is during project initiation:<br>\u2022&nbsp;lack of clarity and agreement on scope<br>\u2022&nbsp;fighting fires from day one due to inherent problematic design of the project<br>\u2022&nbsp;taking overly a poorly designed project<br>\u2022&nbsp;trying to correct problems in the project itself while managing people who are inexperienced<br>\u2022&nbsp;not enough due diligence in the front end of the project during discovery leads to lots of changes and rework as the project progresses<br>\u2022&nbsp;business folk need to have done their homework so that PMs have a solid business case<br>\u2022 lack of clarity and alignment around scope at the start because PMs are not involved in sales<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While there are a multitude of painful problems project managers face, these are merely symptoms. If you analyze them, they come from a few root causes. So the answer is not to deal with the effects but to treat the causes. A lot of these challenges can actually be prevented or reduced during project initiation. This is like a doctor prescribing preventive medicine for proactive problem prevention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You already know that the biggest pain point for PMs is stakeholder management. What comes after? In my survey of project managers, the #2 biggest pain point was mentioned by one in two respondents. 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