Project Management: Bottlenecks And Choke Points

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Project Management: Bottlenecks And Choke Points

In a critical path, just as in a chain, you are limited in strength (or productivity) by your bottlenecks and choke points on the road to product, service or project completion. If you are to be successful at achieving your objectives, these "hose pinchers" must either be eliminated or creatively re-routed or navigated such that you entire processing or business efficiency is not defined by them.

Call them "red tape," "hurdles," "roadblocks"... it makes no difference. They are usually an endemic and culturally entrenched (and generally accepted, despite the fact that they are consistently acknowledged as being a problem) cause for projects not being completed on time, or for budget overruns.

As a business owner, strategic planner, project manager or entrepreneur you have a responsibility to structure your plans and paths to minimize the existence or potentially negative impact of these choke points in your business or project plan. And it will require that you either 1) re-visit the incremental structure of your plan, and change it as and where necessary; or 2) perform an operational review (audit) and evaluation of the incremental steps in your plan's or process' existing critical path toward reaching its target, and taking some corrective action. Read on...

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