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What It Takes to Be a Good Project Manager > Problems in Managing Projects
Problems in Managing Projects
There were nearly nine hundred statements about what factors or variables created “problems” in managing a project. Most of these statements could be clustered into eight categories as shown in Table 1.
| Project Management Problems |
|---|
| Resources inadequate (69) |
| Meeting (“unrealistic”) deadlines (67) |
| Unclear goals/direction (63) |
| Team members uncommitted (59) |
| Insufficient planning (56) |
| Breakdowns in communication (54) |
| Changes in goals and resources (42) |
| Conflicts between departments or functions (35) |
