tailieunhanh - 10 Minute Guide to Project Management Part 2

Lesson 4. Laying Out Your Plan. In this lesson, you learn the prime directive of project managers, all about plotting your course, initiating a work breakdown structure, and the difference between action and results (results mean deliverables). | Lesson 3. What Do You Want to Accomplish In this lesson you learn how important it is to fully understand the project what kinds of projects lend themselves to project management and why it is important to start with the end in mind. To Lead and to Handle Crises Project managers come in many varieties but if you were to boil down the two primary characteristics of project managers they would be A project manager s ability to lead a team. This is largely dependent upon the managerial and personal characteristics of the project manager. A project manager s ability to handle the critical project issues. This involves the project manager s background skills and experience in handling these and similar issues. If you could only pick one set of attributes for a project manager either being good at the people side of managing projects or being good at the technical side of managing projects which do you suppose over the broad span of all projects ever undertaken has proven to be the most valuable You guessed it the people side. In his book Information Systems Project Management author Jolyon Hallows observes Hard though it may be to admit the people side of projects is more important than the technical side. Those who are anointed or appointed as project managers because of their technical capability have to overcome the temptation of focusing on technical issues rather than the people or political issue that invariably becomes paramount to project success. TIP If you are managing the project alone you can remain as technically oriented as you like. Even on a solo project given that you will end up having to report to others the people side never entirely goes away. Your ability to relate to the authorizing party fellow project managers and any staff people who may only tangentially be supporting your efforts can spell the difference between success and failure for your project. Key Questions On the road to determining what you want to accomplish it is important to .