VIDEO: How Can You Avoid a Project Management Fail?

How can you avoid a project management fail? We spoke with Cynthia Johnson, Director of Social Media for Ranklab, to find out. To discover the right project management solution for your work check out our list of Best Project Management Software

Published: Nov 29, 2023
Updated: Jan 13, 2026
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How do you have a PM fail? I’ve seen this a lot. You set it up and you hit send when the project is finished. But every step in the middle isn’t documented. It’s not written about. No one is checking in on it or to note this is the status of this. It’s not that difficult to put status updates. You can do it as a 1-10 scale or 1-5 sale or a color scale from red to green. But you just putting up what needs to get done and then having it put there when it’s done is not project management, its project alert.

It’s like asking for a project and then receiving it, you can do that in an email. A PM tool needs to be used so you know when you look back in a year from now if you want to do that same project again, this is how long it took us before.

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How can you avoid a project management fail? We spoke with Cynthia Johnson, Director of Social Media for Ranklab, to find out.

To discover the right project management solution for your work check out our list of Best Project Management Software

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