Most people in their daily work which are more or less will be involved in the project, and the project to be able to successfully execute is not simple, and if they INTERFERENCE multiple units, and greatly increased the degree of difficulty.
Project managers, log clips from their work can be seen everyone has their own tragic story, I'm afraid degree only more so. How do we do that good project management?
First, what is project management
In their daily work to develop a new product, hold large-scale international conference, for customers to do ERP systems consulting, development, implementation and training, these activities can be called a project. Project Management Institute With the definition of temporary work for the project is to create a unique product, service or result carried out.
The project management is to combine a variety of systems, methods, and personnel, at a specified time to complete the work within the project budget and the quality of the target range. That is starting to Investment Decision to end the whole process of project planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, controlling and evaluation in order to achieve the objectives of the project.
Project management will pass to "time", "cost", "quality" of the three dimensions of the control, thus ensuring a certain time, at a relatively low cost and efficient to achieve their goals. But three aspects of interlocking, any one link will bring great challenges, are likely to lead to great losses. Project management is therefore a repeatedly and constantly revised process that requires time to consider coordination of various factors.
Second, the difficulty of project management where?
1. The lack of insight into the needs of the project, requirements change frequently
Demand is the source of any project, start at the beginning, how demand management through a deep understanding of the project objectives is the first major difficulty. In terms of the nature of the project itself because, in general, project managers and team members will implement the plan, after the start of execution, each change will affect the situation as a whole.
At the same time, because the project itself has the characteristics of uncertainty, demand for project change is in the process of project management is the most talked about. Due to the development, UI, test each character on the entire closed-loop chain, the results of the project output is irreversible. Once the decision-making, implementation of the project will be appropriate consequences, especially to the late implementation of the project, the impact of changes brought about by the demand will be significantly improved.
2. The quality of projects being ignored, it is difficult to measure and control
In the enterprise project management process, the project goal is everyone's consensus, although when there are delays in the project schedule is relatively easy to measure but also more controllable, and project quality is very important but it belongs to the most easily overlooked element. Project Management Institute to define the quality is "to meet the demand, in line with applicability." From this definition, quality is the ability to clearly define and meet the requirements of users and stakeholders, and this is what is difficult to precisely measure and control.
Such as operating large-scale projects people have feelings, a detailed project plan to consider again, once beaten one team started to fall after the project began landing variations. Of course, this process may involve a deviation between the target and the dual experience (quality), but the target compared to the experience more rational, and therefore it will be easier to judge, and project experience (quality) is more interested in the emotional, it is not particularly clear It measures, so after the basic deviation and a chain reaction will be difficult to control.
3. project implementation rhythm disorder, the effect is not clear acceptance
A program executed from the start to the floor often involves multiple teams linkage, each interlocking portion. One part because of deferred subjective or objective factors, cause the whole plan was disrupted, often brings compression execution time associated with delay or error, into a vicious cycle. To make matters worse in this cycle, the priority of sacrifice is often the most important part of the experience of grinding and optimization (that is, the quality of the project), in order to make up for time cost.
In the initial phase of the project, everything looks quite smooth, but actually to the acceptance stage, the frequent problem, not the lack of features is the progress of the delay, even after the completion of the development of demand, and the difference had great expectations.
So many, it can be attributed to the acceptance of the project is the implementation / monitoring process issue, not ready acceptance of work, naturally frequent problems. And when the acceptance link to a system function, for example, the difficulty of acceptance is that it is not a matter of a person's developer, it will involve planning staff in charge of the system, UI designers, testers, and project the main stakeholders satisfaction of the people, which also adds to the difficulty of doing acceptance, acceptance is just one of the difficulties of a single system.
4. The lack of risk estimates, reducing the stakeholder satisfaction
In project management core of the core stakeholder satisfaction it is very important. Standard success of the project is to achieve the project objectives, so that key stakeholders satisfied. But the management of people is the most difficult, such as how to keep the passion within the team morale and combat effectiveness; how to obtain a high degree of trust management, and keep them satisfied is also often the most difficult. Therefore, the project management process in the fourth difficulty, is the management of stakeholders.
In the project stakeholders are not satisfied, not all project objectives are not reached, but as a project manager, risk estimates shortage of on-line project is unknown and no comprehensive thinking, while also constantly to the relevant core stakeholders deliver very high expectations. As a result.
Third, project management and product management What's the difference?
As everywhere "Internet thinking", we see a phenomenon, the project manager this role seems to be increasingly weakened, product manager instead of a great trend, even many Internet companies do not have full-time project manager, project management and product management is completely different.
The product is the ability to supply the market, use and consumption by people, and to meet the needs of some people anything, the project is to create a unique product, service or result, and temporary work carried out. I.e. a product is composed of N items, the product output of the actual things, the process produces a product corresponding to the item. In other words, the product manager responsible for the results, while the project manager is responsible for the process.
Therefore, product management will be focused outward, users and market focus, resolve to do what, to whom, who earn money issues, such as market opportunities and competitive landscape, user requirements and user communication; and project management is focused inward, focus resources and schedule to address is how to use limited resources in a limited time, according to the quality requirements of the stuff to do it, such as resource allocation, resource efficiency, the project schedule.
Eventually leading to two different deliverables, product management, product delivery is the outcome of the final product delivered to users, concerned about the cost of the product, quality and experience, as well as the conversion of the product through operating companies benefit; and project management is delivered management results, the final delivery of the report relevant stakeholders, focusing on team morale, performance, cost, and overall production efficiency improved.
Fourth, how do we do a good project management
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