What are the key factors for an efficient project management?

Project Management: Two Approaches

To be successful, a project must have:

Agreement among the project stakeholders – the team, customer, and management – on the goals of the project.

A plan that demonstrates what is possible, shows an overall path and clear responsibilities, contains the details for estimating the people, money, time, equipment, and materials necessary to get the job done, and will be used to measure progress during the project and act as an early warning system.

Project Management: Business Synergies Approach Constant, effective communication among everyone involved in the project in order to coordinate action, recognize and solve problems, and react to changes.

A controlled scope, or "stakeholder expectations management", to ensure that everyone involved understands exactly what can be accomplished within a given time frame and budget; a systematic method for establishing realistic goals for deliverables, cost, schedule, and quality, as well as techniques for keeping the goals consistent throughout the project.

Upper management support, "managing upward", guiding the upper managers toward timely decisions that keep the project moving – to supply people and other resources, make policy decisions, or remove organizational obstacles.

1.         Agree on the project goals.

2.         Develop clearly defined plans with assigned responsibilities and accountabilities.

3.         Manage the project scope effectively.

4.         Cultivate constant effective communications.

5          Make sure you have management support.

Source: NCS State University

I leave a link of a piece of technical journalism focused in the Project management and specifically about the CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT. Autor: Paul Steinfort PMP and Derek H.T. Walker.http://researchbank.rmit.edu.au/eserv/rmit:10990/n.pdf

Follow all the5 steps of project management with rigour.

Obtain management committment in driving the systems with compliance.

Ensure employee engagement for achieving what is expected.

Key Factor for project management are like project management process doing with skills,

that is you have plan and know to control that plan ,facing and solving problem and finally to close a project.

Approved project goals aligned to organization's strategy.

Effective project plan approved by senior management.

Carefully selected project team to get the job done.

Effective project management with regorous performance management.