Question

What are the benefits of a project kickoff meeting? From your project experience, describe how the project kickoff meeting for one project could have been improved.

Answer 1

Project kickoff meeting allows the company to be able to create the general direction and the blueprint that needs to be followed to achieve the best possible results from the project. Usually, this involves brainstoing ideas that can be changed in the current plan of action, as well as any last minute additions and proper delegation of the roles and responsibilities of the different departments.

I was a part of a game designing company where the new project required the use of having a project kickoff meeting. The company's management was ineffective in determining the project schedule and how the different departments could create an active communication channel in order to supplement collaboration and therefore, if a proper channel of communication was set and hierarchies were established with an achievable goal in sight with schedules set, the company would have been able to complete the project much faster than they actually did.