Basic Tips for Global Project Managers

A few weeks ago Kevin Korterud submitted a post to the Project Management Institute's Voices on Project Management blog.  In this post he outlined a few basic challenges for global project managers.  These challenges included location-specific project requirements, additional communications and transportation costs, and scheduling issues such as location-specific holidays, government regulatory lags, and weather delays.

Korterud's tips for global requirements, costs, and scheduling are rather basic but perfectly aligned to our project variables (scope, budget, and schedule).  Project managers leading a global project must still adhere to proven methodologies and processes but these processes must be amended to consider the effects the individual locations have on the project's budget, schedule, and scope.