{"id":1297,"date":"2017-06-29T13:19:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T13:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resourceguru.wpengine.com\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2025-01-14T09:40:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T09:40:55","slug":"combat-project-burnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resourceguruapp.com\/blog\/project-management\/combat-project-burnout","title":{"rendered":"How smart Project Managers use scheduling and communication to combat project burnout"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most difficult project I\u2019ve worked on took place a few years ago\u2014it was a complex development project with a somewhat rude client and a team that was enthusiastic but in over our heads. We struggled with our project velocity, allowing scope creep to influence our resource allocation<\/a> and blowing our personal schedules by working late nights, early mornings, and through holidays.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, the whole team was completely burned out after this project. We lost interest in our work and carried exhaustion with us on every project after that for weeks.<\/p>\n

Since then, I\u2019ve learned more than a few things about what we could have done better\u2014and how we could have refocused our team. While my team was faced with difficult project specs and an ever-changing client opinion, their work also wasn\u2019t made any easier by the \u00a0project schedule, communication, and expectation setting\u2014leading right to project burnout once we launched. Getting to the point of burnout is never ideal on any team, especially with a project that\u2019s already challenging. It\u2019s possible to avoid this by anticipating a few key things on every project\u2014here\u2019s what I\u2019ve found works for me.<\/p>\n

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