This document provides an overview of project management for those new to the topic. It discusses that project management is about leadership and navigating various stakeholder perspectives to meet goals on time and budget. The author emphasizes understanding requirements, managing risks, communicating expectations, and learning from mistakes. Resources like software and books are recommended to help readers develop their project management skills.
Project Management 101: Communication is 90% of the JobBeth Fischi, PMP
As a technical communicator or manager, you probably already have some of the skills needed for successful project management. What may be missing is a unified approach. The project management discipline, as evidenced by the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, gives you a toolkit for important aspects of your career: considered communication and efficient planning. The discipline can help you by providing frameworks for scope, time, and cost management; quality planning; communications management; defining and controlling risks; analyzing and engaging stakeholders; and more.
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As a technical communicator or manager, you probably already have some of the skills needed for successful project management. What may be missing is a unified approach. The project management discipline, as evidenced by the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, gives you a toolkit for important aspects of your career: considered communication and efficient planning. The discipline can help you by providing frameworks for scope, time, and cost management; quality planning; communications management; defining and controlling risks; analyzing and engaging stakeholders; and more.
This talk introduces you to the basics of the project management processes and knowledge areas and gives a brief overview of the PMP certification journey. You will come away with some best practices for dealing with common project issues that you already face. Come and get a better understanding of an area that will help you hone your career and bring greater value to your workplace.
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Wrap up the rest of the year with smoother well-defined projects and a toolbox of skills and resources to help you organize and bring projects to life. Whenever you are putting a project together, it is essential to keep timelines in check, follow up, and watch out for scope creep. In this webinar, Brian Pichman will discuss different project management techniques and tools to help you not only have a successful project but more importantly, a well defined and detailed project launch. By having a solid foundation and a few easy-to-use tools, you can significantly reduce that project management stress and be more excited for the next project you tackle!
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Balancing all the elements of a complex assignment - time, money, scope and people - is the project manager's job.
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Why do projects fail - the project execution maturity model - basic collabor...Pinnacle Strategies
Why Do Projects Succeed or Fail?
Discover What Really Makes a Difference
Hello Mark,
For too long, project managers have believed that the right planning leads to the right results.
Yet time after time, independent research shows that the current approach to project management fails to produce the outcomes managers expect – and clients want.
It’s clear the traditional solutions to project management are not working. The key to improving project performance is not planning, but execution – creating and sustaining processes and behaviors that deliver consistent, quantifiable results.
Fortunately, the processes and behaviors to deliver consistent execution results are well defined and quantified. These form the Project Execution Maturity Model.
This identifies the elements that drive effective project execution excellence, giving you a measurable means to assess your status, to target areas of improvement, and to make meaningful progress in the way you deliver projects.
You'll learn:
What processes and behaviors lead to lower operating costs, increased throughput, and significant gains in on-time delivery performance
How to confidently identify and work on the right elements to change
Why achieving greater project execution maturity drives increases to your organization's financial performance
How to replicate success, project after project, by learning how to move your organization from ad hoc project management to control of projects, portfolios and continuous strategic improvement
Anyone playing a leadership role, formally or informally, on any kind of project, they act as a project managers. So in order to manage our projects effectively project management plays an essential role
"Fundamentals of Project Management" book summaryHuyHuang
I summarised some important chapter of this book, Fundamentals of Project Management, after I finished my Project Management class. I hope this summary can help other students to basically understand about project management.
Wrap up the rest of the year with smoother well-defined projects and a toolbox of skills and resources to help you organize and bring projects to life. Whenever you are putting a project together, it is essential to keep timelines in check, follow up, and watch out for scope creep. In this webinar, Brian Pichman will discuss different project management techniques and tools to help you not only have a successful project but more importantly, a well defined and detailed project launch. By having a solid foundation and a few easy-to-use tools, you can significantly reduce that project management stress and be more excited for the next project you tackle!
Project Management Best Practices: Brock Boddie/General AssemblyGeneral Assembly
You've managed an interactive project or two before, but it could have gone better — want to find out where you might improve? This class is designed to give an overview of the best practices for project management. From developing a solid project foundation to improving communication and collaboration within your team, this class will provide a clearer idea of where you should focus your energy as a project manager.
Want to learn more? Join Front Row today and access on-demand videos, livestreams, and much more: http://bit.ly/1aqAivV
Balancing all the elements of a complex assignment - time, money, scope and people - is the project manager's job.
Excellent PM training is essential to successfully dealing with the unexpected challenges that come with every plan.
Following is an overview of the top 10 PM challenges that PMs may encounter on the job | appitive.com
Why do projects fail - the project execution maturity model - basic collabor...Pinnacle Strategies
Why Do Projects Succeed or Fail?
Discover What Really Makes a Difference
Hello Mark,
For too long, project managers have believed that the right planning leads to the right results.
Yet time after time, independent research shows that the current approach to project management fails to produce the outcomes managers expect – and clients want.
It’s clear the traditional solutions to project management are not working. The key to improving project performance is not planning, but execution – creating and sustaining processes and behaviors that deliver consistent, quantifiable results.
Fortunately, the processes and behaviors to deliver consistent execution results are well defined and quantified. These form the Project Execution Maturity Model.
This identifies the elements that drive effective project execution excellence, giving you a measurable means to assess your status, to target areas of improvement, and to make meaningful progress in the way you deliver projects.
You'll learn:
What processes and behaviors lead to lower operating costs, increased throughput, and significant gains in on-time delivery performance
How to confidently identify and work on the right elements to change
Why achieving greater project execution maturity drives increases to your organization's financial performance
How to replicate success, project after project, by learning how to move your organization from ad hoc project management to control of projects, portfolios and continuous strategic improvement
Anyone playing a leadership role, formally or informally, on any kind of project, they act as a project managers. So in order to manage our projects effectively project management plays an essential role
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Introduction
Effective leadership is all about communicating effectively. While hiring a manager, good communication skill is a primary component to put into consideration. Helping a manager to make sure that persuasion, responsibility, creativity, and management of value system as well as providing support and motivation to teams. They should have the power to inspire and convince teams to work extra hard to achieve the targeted goals of the organization. Made possible by effective leading. Sound planning, monitoring and communicating. Effective communication acts as an added advantage for a leader to lead effectively (Armstrong & Michael, 2016). The question, what are the key points managers must keep vividly in their minds while communicating with their teams and suggestions to improve communication to make leadership more effective is a topic of discussion in every organization. Thus, forms the basis of our discussion.
Effective and accurate communication act as an essential factor to grow an efficient and successful leader or manager. To accomplish professional success, managers must be active and convincing communicators. It is very vital for managers and his team to learn how to communicate effectively and to aid in successfully completing projects and enable the organization to achieve success and grow. As if that is not enough, communication allows every employee to share what they have and give their opinions. Good communication yields better understanding and trust among people, empower them to follow core principles and values that their leaders want to inculcate in them (Armstrong & Michael, 2016). Lack or absence of excellent communication leads to failure to reach goals and the overall decline of the organization. Interacting with the team freely, a manager will increase the potential of having the work done in time. Good leaders are always aware that effective communication is obtained through just a single process. It is through listening and speaking that managers are said to have good communication. Managers should hence set aside objective that they must achieve after communicating.
Review and understand the types of project manager power listed and defined in the textbook and select and define any two you feel would be relevant to your current project and explain why. Be specific
There are five types of project power manager; formal or legitimate power, reward power, punishment power, expert power, and relational power. One can have all these powers, but to complete the project, I will need to have at least four of them (Heldman & Kim, 2018). Since am doing my final project on leading and managing the Human Resource project, I will consider expert and reward powers. Formal power will help me to establish my own authority as the lead of the project, while expert power will help me gain .
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If I was a Project Manager, what three qualities would I want? First and foremost, I would want to have the fortitude to accept my failures and the strength to drive forward despite of the failures. What made someone like Colonel Sanders (Kentucky Fried Chicken) successful? President Abraham Lincoln? Walt Disney? Vera Wang? All of these people were very successful people, but they also had many failures. So why were they successful? The answer is that they were not weak and crumbled at the first sign of failure. They were focused on their goal and they pushed forward to their success. That is the type of Project Manager I would like to be.
The second quality would be to communicate effectively. Have you ever had one of those bosses that you were always trying to figure out what he/she wants you to do? I have, and it came from lack of communication. As a Project Manager, I need to speak effectively so that there is absolutely no misunderstanding on what needs to be done.
Finally, I would want to have great people skills. A Project Manager needs to be able to listen actively to what others are saying, help develop new approaches for solving problems, and then persuade others to work toward achieving project goals (Schwalbe, K., 2013, p23). As a Project Manager, I would be working with people of different cultures. Understanding people will increase the chances of the project succeeding.
Any of the three characteristics above, either by themselves or in combination with each other, can also lead to project failure. So how do you become a great communicator, a great people person, and thick skinned? You work on it. Take a college course on communications or on people skills. Talk to your current employees and friends to get feedback from them on how you can improve. Then you devise a plan to start implementing their advice into your everyday life.
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The three keys to Project Success seem to have the three factors that all successful projects have in common. Each of these factors is key to any project’s success. Each project can be viewed as a tripod. The three legs must be in place for the tripod to stand sturdily. In a systems project, these legs are critical success factors consisting of the following:
Top management support
A sound methodology
Solid technical leadership by someone who has successfully completed a similar project.
Additional characteristic in IT Project Management are, cost, quality, speed and risk. However it is not possible to have the best of all four factors. Specifically, you cannot have a system built inexpensively, of high quality, built quickly and with little or no risk. Most discussion of these factors only include the first three. It is possible to build a high-quality system quickly, at a relatively low cost by cutting corner and doing little or no testing.
Base on a research carried out by the Coverdale Organization (Cushing, 2002), the respondents identified estimation mistakes, uncle.
What would the ultimate project manager be like? Can you become that person? Explore this guide to develop the top five skills every project manager should possess.
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Presentation pmi - october 26 - 2017 - naji bejjaniPMILebanonChapter
Talking Points & Agenda:
* Reminder of what EQ is – The 5 dimensions
* How to use EQ in project engagements
* EQ impact and effects on project execution
* Consequence of leveraging EQ on project results
Learning Objectives:
Project management is too often focused on the hard skills of executing a project.by the end of the session participants will understand how, by using EQ, the “soft side” of the project can direct boost its “hard” results.
About the Speaker: Dr. Naji Bejanni
Dr. Bejanni has done his Doctoral studies in Econometrics at La Sorbonne, with a Double “maitrise” in Econometrics and in International Relations from Université Dauphine in Paris, and a double M.B.A. from I.E.S.E., Barcelona, and from HARVARD External program.
He taught 6,000 students for 23 years in important Lebanese universities in senior courses, MBAs, and Doctoral programs.
He is an international management consultant, coach and trainer, and a key note speaker in leading conferences in Lebanon and 22 countries across 4 continents.
Was a regular columnist in many magazines (E.g: “Le Commerce du Levant”, “Masculin”, Al Iktissad wal Aamal”), being on the cover story of 2 of them.
Over more than 2 decades, he has provided 60 consulting assignments and trained more than 50,000 people from thousands of companies.
Has been the Private coach of businessmen, politicians, and opinion leaders often on Leadership and public speaking.
He has been also coaching entrepreneurs since 1999 first in universities, then also in BERYTECH since 2002. He was a jury member in the MIT Arab Business Plan Competition and in BERYTEC and guest in many talk shows on Lebanese TV.
Dr. Bejanni has been a keynote speaker in several conferences in the region speaking to medical doctors and government officials in the « Kuwait Health Reform » conference; the international congress for businesses in Bahrain: “Benchmarking for Excellence”, about: “Balance Scorecard” and “Six Sigma”; “Enhancing Productivity” in the 4th GCC International Congress on Productivity in Bahrain; TEDx speaker on Emotional Intelligence in NDU (on Youtube); More recently a panelist in a Digital Transformation Congress in AUB, talking about the effect of Digital Transformation on Education
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Sustainability has become an increasingly critical topic as the world recognizes the need to protect our planet and its resources for future generations. Sustainability means meeting our current needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet theirs. It involves long-term planning and consideration of the consequences of our actions. The goal is to create strategies that ensure the long-term viability of People, Planet, and Profit.
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2. Introduction
10 Years in Association Management
Strong involvement within industry
Self-made Project Manager
Lead numerous projects
AMS Selection/Implementation
Website Redesign
Strategic Planning
Etc.
3.
4. Project Management Means to Me:
Project Management is the new term
for Leader
Ability to look at various items available
Systematically identify and navigate the
process
Being organized and flexible
Diligent and calm
6. Questions You May Be Asking Yourself?
What is Project Management actually?
How can a Project Management process help me?
How can I build buy in with other staff?
How can I get started?
How do I not make it so time intensive?
10. Project Requirements
Understand the requirements of the project
Purpose
End Outcome Desired
Stakeholders (Internal and External)
Budget
Deadline
Ensure you know what is needed for this project
Various stakeholders have different view points
This means something different to everyone
Focus with the end in mind first then how to get there
15. Learning from Mistakes
Best place to learn
About how you manage
Where you can improve your
process
No project manager gets it right
100%
Take ownership when mistakes
occur.
16. Becoming a Project Management Jedi
Master
1. Foster Good Relations
2. Inspire
3. Anticipate Needs
4. Be Driven
5. Anticipate Problems
6. Minimize Meetings
7. Delegate Firmly
8. Goes with a Plan
9. Focus on Solutions
10. Don’t Complain
17. Journey to Project Management Jedi
Master
Start with defining the purpose and end solution
Figure out what you want and need to track
Identify stakeholders
Be flexible
Don’t overcomplicate the process
18. Other Resources
Project Management Session this afternoon
Project Management Institute
Various Tool:
Excel
Software (Basecamp, Microsoft Project, etc.)
Apps (Trello, Asana, etc.)
Do what works best for you!
19. Final Thoughts
“The P in PM is as much about ‘people management’ as it is about
‘project management.’”
- Cornelius Fichtner
“Trying to manage a project without project management is like
trying to play a football game without a game plan.”
- K. Tate
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