WHY? – THE BENEFITS OF SHORTENING PROJECTS
It would be hard to imagine anything that has as many benefits as shortening a project. There are benefits both from an organisational and a personal point of view:
Organisational
- Getting products to market sooner
- Delivering business benefits quicker
- Reducing costs and waste
- Saving time / resources / budget which can then be used on other things
- Increasing profits
- Improving revenues
- Improving cash flow
- Getting more projects done with the same resources
- Stealing a march / gaining a lead on competitors
- Reducing the risk of the project running over schedule or budget
- Reducing the risk of key people leaving – the shorter the project, the lower is this exposure
- Increased team morale.
Personal
- An immensely valuable and totally unique project management skill
- Massively improved work / life balance
- Greater job satisfaction – rapid project pace and sense of achievement.
Want to reduce the risk that a critical project will run over? Shorten it. Like to deliver the business benefits of a project to stakeholders quicker? Shorten it. Been told you ‘have to do more with less’ or ‘work smarter not harder?’ Project shortening is the answer. Want to ensure you don’t have a death march project with teams working insane hours? Shorten it. Want to significantly outperform your competitors and get products to market quicker? Project shortening will do that for you. Want to develop a skill which very few people have? Learn how to shorten projects.