Discussion on ppm (Project Portfolio Management)-3

(After taking over a week off, I finally have the opportunity to write it again today, so that everyone can wait for a long time .)

 

As mentioned above, a company, a boss, and a leader need to understand two problems:Grasp the presentAnd the other isPredict the futureYou also need to know thatAnalyze past,Analyze pastIn fact, it is the best thing to do, because something has already happened. We only need to sum up experience, analyze the problem, and find out which areas should be retained, which should be improved, and which should be removed. In a word,Extract its essence to get its dregs.

 

Analyze the past, grasp the present, and predict the future,I believe that you will agree with these three points. There may be some other differences, but I think these three points can be referred to as a baseline and can be derived from other aspects, after all, as a boss or a leader, there will be more things to do, but as long as he grasps the main points, the development of the entire company will be guaranteed. In this article, the next part will focus on the topic from the perspective of a boss. Of course, there will also be a lot of discussions from the perspective of others.

 

The word "boss" may seem like a small business or a major task. Next I will replace "boss" with "CEO, of course, not every CEO needs to talk about the following things, because the people below have helped to do it, so I think the so-called CEO is still responsible for the overall operation of the company.

 

The first two articles have already mentioned the CEO's pain. Next, let's take a look at how to solve this pain. In fact, for some small companies, the "pain" mentioned above is nothing, because the company is so large, there are only a few things to think about, most decisions can be made quickly, but for a company with many branches and many departments, for many product line companies, the question that needs to be thought out is not what the human brain can think about. Too much data, too many changes, and the human brain is insufficient in strength, next, I will introduce the solution with the most familiar software enterprises as the starting point (of course, this solution is also applicable to most companies)

 

For a software enterprise, let's take Microsoft as an example. Microsoft is very large now, but she also developed from the garage. Of course, Google, HP, and, so if your company is not very big now, you still need to read this article, because it is very likely that your company will grow into a big company, and then you will need it.

 

From the very beginning, Microsoft has been selling Basic to cover so many product lines. If Bill Gates has been thinkingAnalyze the past, grasp the present, and predict the futureI guess he has already been in a mental hospital and cannot analyze so much data in his head. At the beginning, we only had to consider selling IBM products. Now we have to sell so many series of products, and we have to take into account the attacks of Google and apple, without a good solution, gates won't be able to solve it. Of course, Gates is now retired with honor, but this is the end.

 

When Microsoft was a child, we started to talk about it from the time Microsoft grew up (that is, when Windows came out, what do you think Bill wants to do every day?

 

At that time, Microsoft should have not reached its peak, so there were still a lot of jobs. So every day bill arrived at the company. When Secretary Lu Bao made coffee for him, he began to want to know some of the company's situations. What are the main reasons?

To sum up, the main items are as follows:

1.Are you running the correct project:After all, you need to pay for the product, so you cannot invest in the wrong project. You have to check whether the product is correct at any time. Once the product is incorrect due to any factors, it is necessary to immediately dial the chaos.

2.Can the process be optimized:The so-called optimization, that is to say, only these limited funds, limited manpower, limited time, whether every resource is used in a maximized and best way, so that the entire process is carried out in an orderly and efficient manner.

3.Whether to implement the features required by the customer:This is the most practical. products are generally sold out. Of course, you have to sell the products that the customer wants. Therefore, the functions that the customer wants become very important, we need to implement what the customer wants to make it possible for the customer to buy our products.

4.Project Progress:This is very important for the CEOs of most growing companies, because they need to determine the progress, whether the delay, and whether the overspending will occur, use the data to guide the next step.

5.Can some of the latest design concepts be added to the product:We know that today is the information society, and every day all kinds of information are changing rapidly. For products, our functions may be better developed by competitors, therefore, we need new improvements to surpass our competitors. For customers, they may want to buy our products, but they feel that our functions are not as good as they think, where can we improve. Customers are God, so we have to change. However, the problem is that the product has already achieved this level, and new features are added to improve the old features to determine whether the normal release of the product will be affected.

 

(To be continued)