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It’s All About Commitment!

By Melissa Vincenzi, PMP

Costa Rica

One of the biggest challenges a practitioner Project Manager can face, is a project with a tight deadline. Given today’s economic and market conditions, that is a very common trend nowadays. But the key to drive a project of this kind in its way to success is held by people, so in order to get what is needed from these people, it is extremely important to gain their commitment to the project, since the very beginning.

But, what exactly is commitment? How can it be defined? It can be described as a shared vision, a vision that makes people work in synergy to achieve any given objective. Commitment is a sum of many factors, including at least:

• Understanding of business’ needs

• Willingness

• Communication

• Sincerity

• Negotiation and conflict resolution

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About the Author By Melissa Vincenzi Author Melissa Vincenzi, MPM, PMP works a Project Leader in Servicios Computacionales Novacomp, a software development company in Costa Rica. She is in charge of managing short to mid-term software development projects, especially for the financial and banking sectors. Miss Vincenzi is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP); she has a Masters degree in Project Management from the University of International Cooperation, and a BS degree in Computer Science from the Costa Rica Institute of Technology. Melissa can be reached at melissa.vincenzi@cpic.or.cr.