5 Tips to Handoff Your Project to Someone Else. December 19, 2013 | Author: PM Hut | Filed under: Project Management Guides 5 Tips to Handoff Your Project to Someone Else By Christian Bisson Leaving on vacation and needing someone to take care of your project? Want to make sure you come back and it’s not wrecked? It all begins with how you handoff your project; the more you guide your colleague properly, the higher the chance he has of properly maintaining that project. Quality over quantityIf you swamp your colleague with 50 pages of document about everything, chances are he will be lost, or he will take control of your project very slowly, which will affect your project.
In conclusion Handing off projects to other project managers is not easy, and our initial reaction is to “get rid of it”. Let me know if you have more tips in the matter! Christian Bisson is a project manager from Montreal, QC, Canada. 8 Steps to Plan for Your Successor. August 13, 2013 | Author: PM Hut | Filed under: Project Management Guides 8 Steps to Plan for Your Successor By Tim Clark Always have an exit strategy. That advice is a truism for nonprofits, business owners and boards of publicly traded companies. All of them have a fiduciary duty to craft succession plans for key leaders.
However, the adage equally applies to project managers. You don’t want to be stuck in your position for the foreseeable future – just as ambitious, capable members of your team deserve a chance to move up to the next level, even if that level is your job. Project managers actually have it easier than a CEO does when grooming a replacement. Why Succession Planning Matters Succession planning protects your organization by assuring a smooth transition from one leader to the next. To climb the career ladder, there’s no better recommendation than preparing your organization by having a successor in place.
So how do you develop new leaders to take your job? How about you? France Bénévolat, pour vous aider à mieux aider. La Fédération au service des Associations. Le Passeport Bénévole - Page d'accueil.