More to Know About Project Prospects
It’s very common to think that PM means Project Manager. It’s okay if you also made this mistake. The fact is PM stands for Panic Manipulator. Because the pro PM knows the reasons for every action, its prospects, and how to control it. Well, we already have written an article about how cool the Project Manager for teamwork. But let’s talk about one specific that is important for business: project prospect. We will find out about judgment in the project and what rules PMs follow to make everything works how it should be.
Good Judgment and its Importance
We at ChallengeSoft have a rule to never forget about how hard and at the same time essential to make the right decisions for business solutions. All this is due to the complexity of the project during the work and the possible loss of useful solutions. We understand how tempting it is to take the path of the least resistance in these situations. But that complicates matters further and right reaction can often contradict our natural impulse. And incorrect answers can easily be the cause of one of the risks that everyone feared so much.
To avoid it all, we prepared the three rules to follow:
True is the key
It’s hard and barely possible to work without honesty: personal morality and professional judgment. From the personal hart of truth, the pressure to manipulate project status, overstatement of earned income, providing misleading links, incorrect project impact; they must be rejected by political agility. Another, the professional one is a matter of applying professional judgment to the terms of the project and protecting the project’s objectives without deception. These three models help to highlight the correct behavior of PM:
Between us, the government needs an impersonal framework. It can be useful to use risk factors, probabilities and analytics to turn off sensations and move the fantasy project to a more constructive basis. Commit but don’t promise.
Be sure in your “yes”
It’s easier to agree with a proposition on the psychological level. But how easy it could be after saying these three letters? There is always something that catches PM’s attention and can’t leave them uninterested: a long-term project, big deal, or great budget. Thus, Project Managers are subject to project requests for adding functions, improving quality, changing work tasks, approving time and training, and meeting various stakeholder requests.
So remember, there are no project situations that are so severe other than God’s actions that need an immediate response.
Work on your Estimates
Apparently, the number on the wall is inevitable, when it is underlined as a score, it remembers the erroneous one that has a budget. I don’t need to Americanize on the headache that this causes for the incoming PM.
The response to commercial project management, a peer-to-peer project, is an emergency diagnosis that can be expected, and a project with a high level of activity is a broad one. Thus, the “standard deviation” commission (sigma) can be used as a logical and tracking basis for various professional assessments.
Who Works on It: Project Manager
Previously, we were talking a lot about theory and how everything could be done perfectly. But… By whom? Project Manager – the person that does everything right when it comes to the project prospects. So, here’s the main question: what qualities do PM needs for it? Not a lot. Just these five:
Project Human Resources Management
Smart project management of human resources means:
Job description for each role in the project team.
The selection process that checks candidates for the project team.
Performance management process that includes exit management.
Active monitoring of the work of project team members by the project manager.
Project Communication Management
A discussion of issues that threaten the outcome of the project is avoided in the hope that the issue will disappear or be resolved on its own. The state of the project becomes a mystery to the organization.
One of the Project Managers’ qualities is looking for at least two steps forward. That’s why they understand what the status proclamation is for the project and the importance of questions from team members and stakeholders to maintain the visibility and commitment of the project and its goals.
Although communication takes place orally, it requires a plan. The communication plan includes regular contact with the project steering committee and town halls to inform the organization of progress and achievements.
Project Risk Management
Risk management is referred to as unfounded paranoia. Sound management of risk projects means:
The ongoing discussion of risks and risk reduction along with the stakeholders.
Update risk register actively.
Reducing the probability of probable risks with the help of tasks in the project plan.
Project Procurement Management
Resourceful management of procurement projects means:
The process of purchasing products and services is defined.
Interaction with the organization’s procurement department is usually the consumption of project team resources.
Insist that the decision to hire contract services will not be done by the procurement or human resources departments, but by the project team.
Project Stakeholder Management
It is assumed that the business analysts added to the project team to talk about the business, so no more interaction with stakeholders is required. This approach creates huge problems for end-user acceptance when the new system is expected to start production. The stakeholder project management means:
Overview of the proposed software with the end-user community.
Involvement of end-users in setting development priorities and addressing issues.
People are changing the management plan to guide the transition to the new system.
Expecting great end-user efforts to improve data quality.
Three Project Prospect’s Issues and How to Deal with them
Here are the three main issues that you can get:
How to Deal with the Conflicts
It’s a pity, but the project can be a hiding place for conflicts. For PM, this creates a challenge – to remain sensitive and act before the behavior becomes destructive. Personal conflict is more than business conflict – an issue that most managers choose to ignore, hoping it will pass … Sounds naive.
Business conflict can arise for many reasons: different beliefs or prejudices, contrary to technical opinions, restrictions not accepted, overlapping management bodies and different business interests or hidden goals.
But sometimes conflict is just another problem with older people, which increases stress, undermines teamwork, involves the Project Manager in the “he said, she said” arguments, pointing fingers, failure and possible deterioration of the powers of the PM. Diagnoses may include poor personal suitability for the team, cultural blind spots, outrage, or minimal agreement with project goals and responsibilities. Self-knowledge is also important here – are you part of the problem?
Solving the issue of PM requires the communication and negotiation skills, as well as a useful understanding of conflict theory. More about it, you can find in the article from our PM Yulia.
What to Do with the Incompetence
A team can include an inexperienced, resourceful and simple mediator. But the task of the PM is to cope with it.
Incompetence is not the subject of debate, so the first step is to assess the observed failure of productivity and make sure that incompetence is indeed the root cause – not always the case. Poor performance of one team member always affects the performance of others.
This is a serious matter for Project Manager, usually difficult to solve. Remember that the first responsibility of a PM is a project. But if the actions do not give a solution, and the owners say “live with it”, so be it. Make sure that the effort to solve the tasks is recorded, and if necessary, modify the effort estimate and schedule.
How to Take Quality more Serious
The answer is to understand realistic quality goals that could be achieved and to open a meaningful discussion that identifies quality factors before delivery, not after. Recent publication, Project Perspectives: In its place put quality, solved it with a number of useful models.
According to commercial project management, in addition to creating a quality model, the only most profitable effort for a prime minister who takes quality seriously is to create a quality plan that is consistent with the quality model and agreed with all stakeholders. Such a plan may include quality objectives and factors, commercial or technical standards, responsibilities, training needs, mandatory documents, indicators, and possibly more.