3. How to handle delay in document approval in project | practical tactical tips for managers
This video provides a clear, real time, practical tips and tactical tips for handling 'delay in approval' of project documents in real-time project for experience project managers and new project managers.
Even this can be considered as an interview question for project management interview.
Let's look into some tactical tips, to handle delay in approval in a project.
It is really a challenging task for the project manager to get the approval from concerned people and when its is delayed and the entire project team is waiting for the approval.
Based on the criticality of document approval, there could be a significant loss to the project in terms of cost and schedule.
The following ideas can assist in reducing the impact of this challenge.
First tactical tip and practical tip for handling delay in document approval for both new project manager and experienced project manager is, to prepare a RACI matrix.
Second tactic tip for new and experienced project managers are is to block the reviewers calendar. So that the project team can go through the document along with the reviewer and make the change there itself and get the document approval at the end of the meeting so that any delay in project document approval can be avoided.