Product launches are stressful. While success can propel your company to new heights, a botched launch can cripple your business. On top of all that pressure, pulling off the perfect launch is a complicated process, with plenty of room for error. With less than 3% of new consumer goods considered “highly successful” (i.e., exceeding first-year sales of $50 million), what can you do to ensure that everything goes smoothly on launch day — and beyond?

Processing, prioritizing, and tracking incoming work requests takes a lot of effort, especially when they’re coming at you from so many channels: emails, meetings, instant messages, informal conversations, and more. Managing this deluge of requests is time-consuming, unwieldy, and can be difficult to sustain as your company scales.

These best practices will help you bring order to the chaos of incoming work so you can spend more time on important projects and less time trying to decide what you should work on next.

 Project success often comes down to how well you manage your project team and the quality of the work they produce. Keep these four tips in mind and you will reap more success on the projects you manage.

Your project resources are always going to be critical to the success of each project you manage. So it makes sense that how you manage them and get the best cooperation and performance from them individually and as a team is key to project success, right?

What I'd like to do here is discuss four tips you can use on each project going forward to help get the most out of the team and therefore also realize the best success and performance on each project you manage. Consider the following: