The document outlines key aspects of project management, including its definition, the role of project managers, and a typical project management lifecycle. It highlights various tools and challenges faced in managing projects, client interactions, and team leadership, as well as providing tips for successful project execution. Real-world examples and insights into common pitfalls in project delivery are also discussed.

2. Agenda
 What is Project Management
 Role of Project Manager or Team Lead
 Project Management Lifecycle
 Project Management Tools
 Project Management Challenges
 Project Management Tips
 Real Experiences

3. What is Project Management
Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, motivating, and
controlling resources to achieve specific goals.
In One sentence
"Managing the project in an organized Way and control it properly".
The primary challenge of project management is to achieve all of the project goals

4. Role of Project Manager or Team Lead
 To organize the project
 To manage the project
 To manage the Team
 To make developer happy 
 To make a Successful delivery of the Project
 To make client Happy (Finally)   -very hard

5. PROJECT MANAGEMENT LIFECYCLE
Requirement Analysis  Implementation  Development  etc...

7. PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS
JIRA, Skype, MS project etc…

8. Project Management Tools
• Source Control
• SVN, VSS, Git, etc.
• JIRA – Issue Tracker software
• To Track you issues
• MS Project – Planning Software
• Plan you every project before you start
• Skype Meeting Window
• Create common window for you team member for common
discussion and online meeting
• Toodledo
• Organize your task
• Easily work with other people on shared projects with
Toodledo's collaboration tools.
• Ever note
• Organize your task
• Easily work with other people on shared projects with
Toodledo's collaboration tools.
• DropBox or Sky Drive or Google Doc or
SharePoint Portal
• Organize & Keep your all document synchronized with
team members with versioning.

9. Project Management Tools
Backlog
Sprint 1

10. PROJECT MANAGEMENT
CHALLENGES
Client handling, Managing Team members & Deadline

11. Handling Clients 1/2
Client A
 They have solid requirement
 Do regular Project Update Meeting
 Follow Scrum methodology
 Proper Project Planning
 Proper Estimation
 Realistic Deadline
Client B
 They sent Requirement in the Email Body
or Verbally
 Forget the previous requirement
 Change any requirement instantly without
proper analysis
 No Planning or Planning but no tracing
regularly
 Planning stuck on Initial Estimation

12. Handling Clients 2/2
 Better English communication with client
 Always ask for deadline of any assigned project/module/task/work
 Keep log of all discussion, agreement, decision
 Think twice before you make any commitment with the client.
 Ask again if you are not clear yourself on any issue
 Never Say Directly “No”. Show the reason of “No”
 Client is always right

13. Managing Team members 1/2
 Control quality of development
 Review everything once per week
 Max utilization of working hour
 Appreciate and Inspire for better work
 Review Source code
 Ask developer to write pseudo code and show you
 Developer need to study
 Think from Client side as well as from Developer side

14. Managing Team members 2/2
 Never use single developer for one module
 Never misbehave with the members
 Never punishment directly
 Spare sometime for general discussion
 Keep up-to-date about Developer’s skill sets
 Never force them to work more than regular hour
 Assign resource according to skill set

15. Manage Deadline
 Keep Projects Plan Up-to-Date
 Review Project status and compare with the plan regularly
 Complete delayed issue with dynamic plan
 Re-structure project plan when needed to meet deadline
 Take daily status of each members via tools

16. PROJECT MANAGEMENT TIPS

17. Drill Down Project Details
• Do proper requirement analysis
• Do Technical Analysis and Find all Open
Issues
• Nail down all work details
• Go to Top-Bottom approach
• Try to breakdown each task
• Each Task estimation can not be more
than 3 days in the plan
• Find Total Man-hour of the project

19. REASON OF FAILED PROJECT

20. Failed Project reason
 Requirement never freeze
 Poor project management
 Max no of members leave from the team
 List of bugs are gather than functionality
 Switch to another technology frequently before end of the project
 Wrong architecture/framework design
 Core Software Version Upgrade of Large Application (Integration Issue)

21. REAL EXPERIENCES ???

22. Clients
 Travel Curve (Tourism Application)
 Rockwell (Warehouse)
 CREDEM (Internal Portal, DMS)
 Congral (Health Care System) JIRA + MS Project + VS 2008
 Nvision (nSales) TFS + MS Project + VS 2010
 Robi Axiata (Enterprise Portal)  SVN + SP2010 + VS 2010
 AB Bank  Same

23. THANK YOU FOR JOINING
MJ Ferdous
ferdouscs@gmail.com
01715015093