Successful project management not only tests the overall planning ability of the project manager, but also tests the collaboration ability of a team. You may be a project manager of Party A’s company, or a project manager of Party B’s company. The purpose is to plan tactics and ensure the smooth progress of the project. So, in project management , what principles should be paid attention to to ensure the smooth progress of the project?
1. Keep a beginner's mentality and keep exploring
Every project can be regarded as a new exploration. As a project manager, most of our positioning is "implementation requirements." Whenever new requirements are brought up, we always rush to implement them, and are unwilling to spend some time studying whether these requirements are feasible or take the initiative to do so. Explore the inner logic and reason.
As a project manager, you should keep a beginner's heart and keep the spirit of exploration. Whenever a project requirement is received, it is regarded as an attempt to explore a solution. In this process, it is necessary to always keep the attention of stakeholders to ensure better management of requirements and target objects. In this process, it is also a kind of keeping introspecting and exploring one's own role. So this means that the project is not just a simple "task completion", but better to help oneself think, learn and explore.
2. Always put project requirements first
It seems that there is some contradiction with the first article, but it is not. We are not unfamiliar with the word demand, but if we want to truly understand the demand, we need a heart of exploration.
What we need to do is to dig out the factors inherent in the demand, not to float on the surface.
For example, the small package of the product should be changed to a large package. On the surface, it is just a change of product specifications and product capacity. In fact, the real pain point of the customer may be to increase the customer unit price or reduce the cost, or to meet the consumption of consumers in the market. Preference changes, it is necessary to understand the background under which customers put forward such propositions, and conduct interlocking analysis, in order to truly understand customer needs.
3. Pay attention to the logic in the project
Each link of the project, the five major process groups, and the ten major knowledge fields do not exist in isolation, but an interlocking whole. Any change will affect the normal operation of the project.
Business value generates demand before the project is initiated. Before the project starts, we need to set reasonable goals, and the project is sometimes used to achieve the goal. There is a logical structure between them, which can be mutually verified to achieve a considerable degree of coordination.
Although it is impossible to stay the same after the project is planned, and any change may break the balance at any time, this process of continuous reflection will help sort out the project plan and adjust the plan. This is the essence of project management.
4. Constant verification and adjustment
If a project goes well from start to finish, everyone is happy. But generally speaking, changes in various factors such as the environment, requirements, and personnel will cause unpredictable changes in the project.
In addition, requirements are often not clarified at the beginning, but are constantly adjusted, verified, and tested during the implementation process to become completely clear at the end. It is even possible that the demand will be overturned. Therefore, we are required to have such a consciousness of continuous verification, maintain a scientific and skeptical spirit, and slowly distinguish which are facts and which are our hypotheses.
5. Timely review and continuous improvement
When we face complex project requirements, the project will have room for continuous improvement. Even after the first phase of the project has been recognized and succeeded, it has remained the same and may still fail or even die in the passage of time. Therefore, good projects also need continuous review and continuous improvement.
For individuals, timely review can also help you better cope with what has happened, help yourself better adjust the next plan, and maintain a continuous learning attitude to make yourself better. Therefore, constantly improving, innovating, and even subverting the original things are our attitudes towards projects and personal treatment of life.
Project management has always been a systematic task, not only for skills, but also for individuals. When you can follow these principles in project management, you will surely become a successful project manager.