This topic is about taking a project and implementing it in a way that has the largest or strongest impact. This can include things like design, where a great visual appeal can make a project more appealing or user-friendly (like a website), or this can include the best way to deliver a presentation so that you can get funding.
Particularly if you are involved in management, motivating your workers is important to project success. So, being able to deliver the ideas and motivation behind a project in a way that inspires your team is a very important skill. There are many ways to improve: you can take time to list all the important parts of the project and why your team should care, so that you have answers for your team; you can practice delivering a presentation or speech, so that you appear more confident in the project; and you can get your team members involved in some part of the project that is important to the project’s success.
Some advice for project implementation improvement is to make sure you have a good visual image, as humans are visual learners more than anything. Then, make sure you understand the material and know why you’re behind the project, as well as why your team members should be behind the project. Offer motivation to others to help insure the project’s success.
This RichardStep Marketing survey was designed to get a better understanding of what really gets under the skin of those folks out there dealing with project implementation and delivery. Read over the awesome answers below and see how you can tailor your business to address the frustrations of the people most relevant to your business niche market. Want more? Read the 125 other topics in the ‘Frustrations’ survey category by clicking here.
The following list are uncut and raw responses of the things this group found most frustrating in their daily lives.
Project Implementation and Delivery
- Projects, preparing for final test, completion of requirements to advance next year
- Project deadlines, because you should want to make it the best you possibly can in that small period of time, and sometimes it doesn’t turn out just how you wanted it, and you don’t have the time to fix it.
- A Project that i had been working on for a while failed and i had to give up
- Doing a project with a group of people. This was frustrating because the other members of the group didn’t put in effort into our project. I had to do the whole project by myself. They were also very disorganised.
- I have a project that I have to complete but it was incredibly frustrating to start because I didn’t fully understand what was being asked of me or how I should go about doing it.
- Complete a project. I need to have a model to refer to.
- Finishing a project at work on time – I have difficult times understanding complete timelines and getting the work done when promised. I tend to have to hurry things along at the last second and it’s stressful
- Start my own project, but work/life gets in the way. Need more free time!
- Working at a project out of my skill set and finding it hard to accomplish anything.
- Completing a project that is taking too long and the customer is akeeps asking for unagreed things
- Working on a project without a define path and direction and really short time to submit the deliverable.
- Working on a project with two other people who have no clue what to do on it. They don’t understand how we can use the information and present it.
- Work on school projects, that i do not want to do, because i do not enjoy them or have any idea how to work on them.
- Work in school projects and assignments. This was frustrating because I had to work on it until late hours and was usually the only one doing the work. Also, I was heavily loaded and procrastinated too much while doing these assignments.
- I had this huge project to do. I procrastinated and I had limited knowledge on the subject.
- Spen 2 days on a project because our reports were not running properly.
- I’m working on a project at work, and people want me to spend time developing the last minute details when we are struggling to get the main foundation work completed.
- My partner for a project wasnt at school so I had to do both halfs of the project. It was frustrating because If I didnt complete his half I would get a bad grade.
- Had to do 2 giant projects at school, and there was dire penalties so i was pressured and it was annoying.
- Work alone on big projects and working on projects with a team that has their heads in the clouds letting me do all the work .
- Working in a team project!!! Because I did not my tesm members as all of them were not informative and lacked proper communication skills.Most of all,they blamed me as the sole cause for failure.
- Stop working on my project because I was forced to study.
- Continue work on a project that has privately been deemed a loss
- Starting over on a project I have been working on for a year
- Waiting to start a project – when I get an idea in my head I want to start immediately.
- I have had a group project that is very time consuming and certain members are not pulling their weight. It is frustrating because the assignment is due soon and it is only fair that everyone do their part.
- I have to present a project it’s frustrating, because I always get nervous.
- Trying to work on a project by yourself in one day, without help from other team members
- Working on my FCCLA project has been frustrating for me because I have a lot to accomplish and not a lot of time to accomplish it all.
- Had to manage a new project that was put on my plate without any foresight or thought on the long term effects that it will have on other projects.
- Complete a packaging project. I’m an artist, not a box maker.
- My science & English project because Mrs. Frizzell expects a lot from us.
- Getting prepared for a project that I’m unsure on how to do is making my life complicated.
- I had to finish my team project but team members didnt work.
- Stay late at work for a project that has been taking forever.
- I had to stop work on a project to attend to something else
- Dealing with a research project, the topic of which kept changing. Responses not being given on time and bad scheduling.
- Started working on a new project without all the necessary information.
- I don’t want to start any project if I don’t have more information.
- Trying to complete an IT project where other people didn’t understand the importance of their involvement
- I had to finish a spanish project and figure out drama in my school.
- I don’t really like group projects because it is sometimes hard for me to work in groups
- Finishing all of my honors projects because I only have a month to work on four projects.
- At home I had to do a huge project in 1 day due to a bad situation. I spent till 7:00 doing it to find out it was not due the next day but the day after. Not originally due that day but the due date changed.
- Motivating myself to start a project that I don’t neccesarrily have to do but promised this organisation I’m no longer involed with I would do.
- I have had to complete a few projects all in the same week and it can be frustrating if it piles up to fast or one project has taken too long to do.
- Help my team mates finish our project as they refuse to take responsibility and I wanted the best for us
- I had to work in a team for a project in the univeristy but I did not get along with the other members so it was very frustrating because we had to work together but we did not have the same level.
- I’m frustrated because I’m working a project at work where I don’t believe in or trust the product I’m supposed to be selling and creating. I get paid a very good salary and my work is easy… but its frustrating and has put me off corporate life.
- CHASING SOMEONE TO DO THEIR PART OF A PROJECT THAT IS DRAGGING THE CHAIN
- I need some information to get a work project going, and the person who has the information has been unavailable and hasn’t returned phone calls or emails. Frustrating.
- I was assigned a partner to do a group project with that I know will make me do all of the work. This is one of the many reasons I prefer to do projects on my own.
- Revising the guidance I’m working on for a project. I don’t know the best information to include.
- Follow the lead of someone else to complete a project. I believed that I had a better way to find the desired outcome.
- At work I’ve had to take over a half-completed project that was very detail-oriented and tedious. It was frustrating because it is difficult to figure out where someone else left off and where I needed to start.
- The most frustrating thing I had to do is to do a project which has no clear scope and objective and I also know that doing that project will not benefit/resolve the actual problem.
- Hallway conversations suddenly turning in to major projects, only to fall off the radar midway through the process.
- The most frustrating thing I’ve ever done is finish a project in a short period of time. I need time to perfect my work and I need to get a good grade.
- Deciding which people to lay off when whilst potential project workload keeps changing
- Doing maintainance work. At work, when I have to monitor project health and solve issues not necessarily caused by me.
- Went to my internal guide for clearing doubt about my mba project like how to start it,what all information are requied.inspite of making me understand about project she have given another assignment that is write about research methodology
- My partner wasnt at school so I had to do his half of the project by myself. It was frustrating because I already did my part and then I had to do his or I would get a bad grade.
- The most frustrating situation I had to do was to finish a project when my partner didn’t give me the information i needed.
- Frustrating because i don’t know where to start on the said project.
- I think its frustrating when Im the only one working in a group project.
- Lack of clear direction at work, causing confusion to many people and project pending / delay.
- Minute details of volumes of specifications regarding a tiny aspect of a project that will amount to a few dollars.
- Getting my school group organized and motivated to finish a senior design project we are working on.
- Having real estate deals fall through. They are frustrating because I want a project as soon as possible.
- I had to organise a competition and the coordinator expects me to take over the project. However, I’m only the secretary.
- Most frustrating thing I had to do in the past few days was buying supplies for my project. It was frustrating because I had to buy a lot of stuff and most stores didn’t sell the supplies I needed.
- Working with a team mate who kept on talking about things that didn’t relate to the project. It was a waste of time and effort.
- Debugging an implementation of an algorithm. Takes ages and does not really advance the project.
- It frustrates me most when people repeat the same things… disturb me in my studies or projects..
- Time sheets – we should be paid on value, not on how many minutes it took us to accomplish a project.
- Having to manage a team of 7 grown ups with different personalities,abilities and motivations.Getting them to work on this project was difficult,but we got it done.
- I’ve had to deal with working between multiple departments that aren’t always on the same page. It’s frustrating to work on a project only to find out that wasn’t what department 1 wanted you to do, but department 2 liked that you worked on it.
- The most frustrating thing I’ve had to do was organize and prioritize my schedule for the week because I have an overwhelmingly busy week of schoolwork, projects, applications, and extracurricular activities to do.
- I had to sort through a data set that was improperly labelled. It was frustrating because it cut my usable data to one fourth of its size and added hours to my project.