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Project Management Series: Defining Project Management


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Many project managers get their stars because they're good at making things happen, but project management is more than showing off your organizational skills and supervising others. Project management can be summed up as answering a few crucial questions.
  • The first question you have to answer is: what problem are you solving? the best draw to a successful project starts with knowing what you're trying to do.
  • The second question is how are you going to solve this problem? whither you're solving a problem or pouncing on an opportunity you might have to choose from several possible strategies.
  • The next question is: what is your plan? you need a plan for getting a project done, you have to identify the work that need to be done in detail: How long the work takes? the resources you need and how much they cost?
  • The next question is: How will you know when you're done ? clearly defined objectives and requirements are the first step, but you also need to define success criteria, quantifiable, measurable results that show that the project is completed. like a certificate of occupancy for a house, or a sales increase of 20 %
At the end of a project you can answer the last question: how well did the project go? this important step is often skipped: what works well? what didn't? and why ? how could work have been than better ?.
Through out this course we'll be looking at how to answer this crucial questions to increase the likelihood of success for your project and the ones you work on in the future.

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