Saturday, May 3, 2008

Basics of Project Management

Erkan Meydanlioglu, Mr
IT Telco or projects are underway to change our world & 39; with technological developments. Companies are in a competitive race to convert their production lines with the latest technology, which creates a lot of IT and Telco Projects everyday. But how HighTec these projects are managed and what problems arise for companies during the development process? Most European companies are looking for Senior Project Managers with high qualifications to hire and they are willing to pay high salaries.Project management is the highest level of technology development l & 39; information combined with business management skills.If this work requires a lot of that qualification, in some projects and cases preferable to subcontract the job to a professional PM.
If you are a professional and want to learn more about management Project d & 39; Affairs, here are some useful tips as essential elements:
Before departure are expected to know the 2 most important aspects of project management. Any d & 39; First, the duration and the project budget. You are expected to be delivered on time cost effective projects. So below details are the main 2 titles.
Project Documentation: Any level projects and needs for development documentation team.So you absolutely must work closely with the employer & 39; (Ma tre d & 39; book ) To define & 39; all characteristics and translated into computer language. Simply, if your employer & 39; not give you any project document, it means that you must prepare the leaves and you spend more time at this level. Naturally, the preparation of documents have deprived the conditions that the type and expressions to define in legal terms point.Project documents are highly technical and individual leaves that business contracts and May include diagrams, demonstrations, drufts d & 39; explain better. Clear and well-defined documents d & 39; you will save many problems on the life cycle of your project.You must learn about ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) qualification & 39; if you have not yet heard. Using documents ITIL standartise the common definition of all stakeholders of this project. (ITIL training detailed information can be found on http://www.itil.co.uk)
Planning: When you complete the documentation, you& 39;ll have to plan the stages of the development process with your resources. L & 39; effective use of resources of the company & 39; (ERP) shows your level of & 39; management experience. This work needs to know your development team and their qualifications. & 39; If you are not familiar with your team, you have to do a planning meeting with & 39; development team. You can distribute tasks according to their title and talk to your team with their tasks and wonder if each member of & 39; team can carry out tasks set and how long it takes. & 39; C is a hard Enterprice Resource Planning (ERP). A good PM should talk with his team and explain clearly their tasks against a misunderstanding. During your planning interactive, you must use a project management tool such as MS Project or Prince2. These programs are not easy to use, but the necessities of professional management these timetable for the project monitoring by policy makers. MS Project is a commercial software from Microsoft and much easier to use depending on Prince2 (Projects controllable Environment). Prince2 is widely used in Britain public sector projects and contains many models to complete and to report the highest level managers l & 39; development team. if you want to work in Great Britain, you should better to learn about Prince2 certification programs.Last years, it has risen & 39; a sector standard in the United Kingdom, so learn it.Project management tools will control, project monitoring Lifecyle, what is really important in major projects. All steps must be followed carefully so as not to lose the & 39; money or waste of resources. Thus, allows repair or modify the problem arises. All project documents and your final plan must be distributed to your team, considered together, let them ask their questions and explain what you expect on the risks that point.
Calculate: There may be some risks within or Apart from the effects that may cause the project Lifecyle. A professional must look l & 39; inside or outside the & 39; environment and calculate the potential risks to avoid risks in management. Your estimates or potential impacts may result unsuccesful results, try d & 39; analise possible risks and you do plan B.
Meet your team: l & 39; development team will be in place before you the development process begins. In this level, you must have some management skills as life experience, psychology and business management skills that the distribution of tasks to members according to skills. No need to mention that you must read their resumes before indroduction. Having idea of their skills and experience you will entitle the idea of a person on the right task. Try to speak and to measure their willingness to involve & 39; s this project. Skip motivated. If you have the emotional intelligence & 39;, easier to select the right people. Their daily lives, & 39; marital status, family or relations office can do their jobs and can be expensive to delay the whole project. L & 39; internal relations are the subject & 39; management relations and that you are supposed to have the life experience & 39; high, if not find case studies on web sites and how l & 39; experience analise GP covered human relations during their problem case.
Development: After your project plans are approved by policy makers and earned a hundred percent agreement, walk through the development process which is mainly carried out by your development team.At this stage, you have to be in communication with members of the team & 39;. Since the various parties will be developed different people, a mistake the effect & 39; whole project and communication is important fatal. The characters of members of the team & 39; and the desire d & 39; help l & 39; other is important within your team. As a PM, thanks to your duty to coordinate your team and maybe even responsible for their relations with other & 39;, so watch your team carefully and avoid & 39; d & 39; possible disagreements memebers them. DAILLY Make meetings with their previous work and their results and tasks overnight. Ask them & 39; s problem and they remind them of the process of integration & 39; easy to create by combining parts of working with explanations. After all pieces are completed project, you should combine as the final product. Personally, I& 39;ve never met & 39; combine without a problem. It will always be forgotten something by a member of your team & 39;, always. For missing problem depends on your members of the team & 39;, c & 39; is why Im always remember your team has to speak to other & 39; as possible as they can. Once, one of our teammate n & 39; has not verified the version of server software, which caused 1 week to solve this problem stupid. This team always asking me, and I say this is the best project manager & 39; that they saw, they are even working on software projects. So the development process needs a lot of patience and the ability to coordinate you.If you forget the rule & 39; or the development phase is the " communication " obtain a stamp d & 39; aspirin, headaches seem!
Testing: Combine all the elements of the project and finalize your druft product.Never forget that this & 39; is not a final product to achieve, just before a druft tests. Testing stage always go crazy and must be tested long occupation. Multi tests to better things to do with your team developer. Each member must check his own part in the first, second tell them to change the pieces and go on testing. Sometimes, developers can miss very simple points on their own part and that & 39; easily be found by another member of the team & 39;. Test each piece with many combinations.If d & 39; project is about software, d & 39; first assume that you are a normal level software buyer and what kind of problems of this software may cause. Second level is changing your mind and assume that you are a whitehat hacker and keep your testing until & 39; that your product all parts are upheld on the security reviews. When & 39; team finished their events, you personally test your product up & 39; that you are sure on all points. Some projects require third professional testing services, but I can assure you that your employers will test your product and you get embarrassed when they found bug on your project. In some cases, can lead to bugs, a court case against the project manager and salesman company.
Implementation: You& 39;re the greatest potential risk. If you integrate your work in an existing system, it will be possible potential conflicts between the parties and modified. Or some problems will be seen after new parts are implemented as unexpected reactions. Implementation d & 39; a change needs to cooperate with the existing system of & 39; operator. He certainly knows his own performance and functionality of the system you need to cooperate with him. Easy if the new system running. It & 39; is not a system in motion, your product must be deployed to & 39; environment, it is & 39; s d & 39; all.
As you have done, project management is a difficult job and needs of many IT and management skills (6 sigma) unionized. A high level of professionalism PM must deliver its work in the draft budget and time ways, no matter if its software or & 39; a marketing campaign. Of course you have to focus on one particular area where you improve your skills PM in time, each region has hiw own tools and various diciplines, but as a beginning, you must do the main points of project management. Never delay, never exceed your budget. Employers do not like surprises and your biggest competitor is a click away. Worse, c & 39; is losing the confidence of citizens or them.Dispite disappointing project management is a prestige in society and realized, no need to say much travel and know new people is points.
Resources Product: Project Management information on accreditation or & 39; d & 39; buy books can be found at http://www.pmi.org & 39; course of learning can be applied to http : / / www.butrain.com/
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