Project Management Fundamentals. Project Manager Responsibilities. Related Roles. Project Manager pitfalls. An average day of a PM.

1. Project Management Fundamentals
Dmitriy Scherbina
Technical Program Manager @ Ring
A-Players Recruiting School 2019

2. What is Project Management?
Project management is the practice of initiating, planning,
executing, controlling, and closing the work of a team to achieve
specific goals and meet specific success criteria at the specified
time.
The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of
the project goals within the given constraints.
Wikipedia

3. Project Manager Responsibilities
Planning and Defining Scope, Activity Planning and Sequencing,
Resource Planning, Developing Schedules, Time Estimating,
Cost Estimating, Developing a Budget, Documentation, Creating
Charts and Schedules, Risk Analysis, Managing Risks and Issues,
Monitoring and Reporting Progress, Team Leadership, Strategic
Influencing, Business Partnering, Working with Vendors,
Scalability, Interoperability and Portability Analysis, Controlling
Quality, Benefits Realisation

4. Project Manager Responsibilities
1. Planning
2. Organizing
3. Leading
4. Controlling
a. Measuring
b. Evaluating
c. Correcting

5. Related Roles
1. Project Manager (when?)
2. Program Manager (when?)
3. Delivery Manager (when?)
4. Account Manager (when?)
5. Product Manager (what?)
6. Team/Tech Lead (which way?)

6. Project Lifecycle
Idea Production 1 year afterStart

7. Typical team structures with PM role
1. Account Manager + Project Manager + Product Manager +
Tech Lead
2. Project Manager + Product Manager + Tech Lead
3. Project Manager + Tech Lead
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8. Project Manager artifacts
1. Project, Program, Portfolio
2. SOW, Schedule, Gantt chart
3. Email, Calendar, Messengers
4. SDLC, Agile, SCRUM, Kanban, Waterfall, SAFe, Prince2
5. JIRA, Trello, Asana, Basecamp, Pivotal
6. Risk matrix
7. RACI matrix

9. Project Management Office

10. An average day of a PM
1. Email
2. JIRA
3. Standups / syncs
4. Scoping / planning
5. Scope / schedule / process adjustments
6. Communication with stakeholders / reporting
7. Problem solving

11. PM’s struggles and pitfalls
1. PM may be a blame target
2. PM may not have authority to influence decisions
3. PM may struggle working with many cross-cultural
distributed teams
4. PM may not provide enough transparency
5. PM may not think ahead
6. PM may be too pushy

12. Recruiting process and
Project Management (KANBAN)
Sourced Pre-screen
Tech
Interview
Executive
Interview
Offer sent
Offer
accepted
John Smith Ralphie
Butler
Tahmina
Baldwin
Zaydan
Larsen
Ziggy Slater
Aliyah Yoder Arman
Haines
Alan
Mcknight
Ruby-Rose
Herrera
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13. What to read?
1. Google your questions
2. https://habr.com/ru/
3. https://dou.ua/

14. Thank you!
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