Basics and Important Lessons in Project Management
Our goal is not to teach you project management for million
dollars projects or how to bring a man on Mars, this is taught in schools of
project management like the PMI institute for a hefty fee and in takes a few
years. OUR GOAL IS to give you the basic
tools to manage a project in a small to medium company or one of your own
projects.
Because project management is about understanding some basic principles and
following them through until completion and success of your project. In that
case these tools are the same as the ones taught in these schools. These
schools give you other tools also, like how to protect you legally,
financially against possible problems causes by any unexpected non
realisations of some expected turnouts.
Some Basics Principle:
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Use the tools given to you
(like the project charter, the
Excel
Gantt charts template, the
task List, the RASIC or RACI
chart,
cockpit chart, etc...)
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Trust yourself and your team
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Set clear goals and ask your team to confirm their
understanding (in writing if possible)
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Do now over trust and therefore make regular check and
status meetings,
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Set short term goals in order to not lose sight of a
task
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Report to your management on a regular base
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Close the projects
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Use the lessons learnt from previous projects
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Track errors and root cause with the appropriate tools
(8D, 5D, 5-Whys, FTA, ....)
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Because project managemetn is about managing uncertainty
and trying to keep chaos in a bottle, always expect the worse.
Here the main tools:
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The
project Charter gives you authority from your management. The
commitment that you will not get sticks put into your wheels.
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RASIC, RACI
or RASCI Chart or responsibility chart. It defines who is doing
what.
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Task List or Open
Topic List to follow the tasks accurately.
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Project timing, Gantt chart
and some more explanation about project management
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Business Model 101 in Excel explained in many details. Creating your company is the best project ever.
As we are analysing your feedbacks, other project tools
will be added here
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