How project management skills help designers?

Project Stakeholders Management

Stakeholders management is very crucial for any project, our project starts with the needs of stakeholders and ends with them signing off our designs. Of course, project managers are responsible for planning out the stakeholder management that might tell a designer when to meet a stakeholder but it is up to the designer to understand how to communicate with them, Each stakeholder has different needs and expectations, documenting them can help us in figuring out how to gain stakeholder buy-in!

Project Scope Management

Designers often aim for perfection which leads them to add more to their designs or going off the track, and it goes on and on. Having a scope written for the design work, in the beginning, will keep the designer on track and focused on the things that are important to the project, make sure to include out-of-scope in the document as well!

Project Schedule Management

Having a schedule helps the designers to track their progress and plan the next steps, and again, the project manager is the one who plans out the whole project, but if the designers have plans for subtasks, whenever they mark a task off their plan, it will motivate them to finish more work.

Project Risk Management

Stay prepared with a risk response plan! Conducting a risk analysis at the beginning of a project can keep the designers from falling off the edge. For example, you have found too many usability bugs, and you are approaching the deadline. How do you plan to solve it? Or you have planned a few usability test sessions and most of them didn’t go as planned or at the least what if we didn’t have the human resources or need more human resources?

A risk analysis can help with prioritizing the critical risks and a risk response plan with alternative solutions will save a lot of time and unnecessary stress.