If you want to ensure your project’s success, it is important to use dedicated project managers to oversee your project from conception to completion. Project management helps balance a project's timeline, budget, and scope as teams work to meet their objectives. Project managers oversee the individual tasks that move a project toward completion, so the ultimate success or failure depends in large part on the skill and competency of the project manager. Effective project management techniques can help your organization carry out large-scale projects on time, on budget, and with minimal disruption to the rest of the business. Here are some of the key benefits of project management: leadership and direction Project management provides the vision, control, purpose, and coaching that enables a team to do their best work. In addition, project managers seamlessly integrate resources across several departments, vendors, and other involved parties. With a project manager in place there is no confusion about who to turn to for direction. Project managers enforce process and keep everyone on the team in line because they are accountable for whether the project fails or succeeds. Organizations that use project management to monitor processes and schedules can more effectively complete their projects on time and on budget. Quality Control Projects are usually under enormous pressure to be completed according to a set plan. Without a dedicated project manager who has the support and ‘buy-in’ of executive management, tasks are underestimated, schedules tightened, and processes rushed. The result is a project that exceeds the timeline or budget, [...]