Question

) At what phase of the management process do you set goals?
B) What are the differences between good goals and poor goals?
C) What are the components of a good goal?
D) Can you alter a goal? Why or why not? If yes, when should you alter a goal?

Answer 1

At the Initiating Phase of the Management process, we will be setting the Goals and objectives, the first thing in the management process is setting a clear and transparent goals and objective that can determine the requirements of business and customer.

The difference between good goals and poor goals are that Good goals are very specific and clear, transparent, and clearly mentioned so it can be measured easily, goods goals are also time specific, and that can attract encouraging behavior from people, Bad Goals are highly manipulated and not clear, not transparent, further with such bad goals entire project can be failed as the objectives are defined but that are not sufficient or not clear.

Components of Good Goals are as stated below:

• Specific: Goals or organizational objective has to be specific one and any changes to be carefully managed, such goals to be defined with specific requirements that are to be met with a particular project.
• Measurable: Goals should be measurable. We should define specific criteria and during project executing time, based on such criteria, we can measure the progress of that project.
• Achievable: Goals should be achievable and clearly mentioned, it should be transparent one, so, we can achieve the goal
• Realistic: Goals are to be realistic and reachable, so we can achieve or meet the project objective.

Any goals should be specific one, however, such goals can be changed, but such changing of goals are to be managed carefully, and change should be coming with proper reason and the goal that is altered in a effective approach, so that goals would be manageable, again, any Goal if changed we also need to perform impact analysis to understand how is the Impact of such goal on the project and constraints of project like time, cost, further, Goals can be changed across the project life cycle, but It should come with specific and justified reason and Impact analysis to be performed to take further approval from project sponsor or customer.