From programmer to Project Manager (23): Project management is not troubled waters

What constitutes a qualified project manager? The most fundamental point is to be confident, otherwise the tube project is like troubled waters, the final result is to get a dead fish!

Successful project managers have a common feature, which is to be confident. If this is not done, it means that the project manager lacks the overall calculation, can only take one step to see one step, how many detours the project will take, it can only see luck.

2. How to be confident

Why do some project managers have the ability to be confident? As the saying goes: Frozen three, cold day. In fact, it is only a superficial phenomenon, like an iceberg exposed to the surface of the water, the water below there is a huge support. For project managers, the underwater part is their thinking, knowledge, skills and experience, as shown in:

Experience

Experience is the most direct support factor. See bamboo naturally know what kind of bamboo, do similar projects, you can copy the previous practices, eliminating the process of groping, this is the experience of the valuable place. Why do many companies only recruit experienced employees? This is because of experience to know how to do, thereby saving the company's training costs, can be faster to create benefits.

Knowledge and Skills

Knowledge and skills are embodied in their breadth and depth. Breadth, can extrapolate, comprehend by analogy, can quickly understand customer requirements, found in the project is not considered. There is depth in order to detect potential problems and discover the difficulties of the project. These are important support for a confident.

Thinking

People who have not seen bamboo, there is a way to draw bamboo, is to listen to other people's description of bamboo, in the mind form the appearance of bamboo, which depends on a person's thinking ability. Similarly, even without experience of similar projects, leaders and clients will tell us what to do and see how much we can understand. If by virtue of their own analysis, synthesis, classification, comparison, induction, deduction, abstraction, generalization and other thinking ability, through learning, communication, summary and other methods, to their own confused problems conquer, can also become a confident project manager.

Therefore, the confidence is not overnight learned, nor rely on an inspiration to come out, but need to experience, knowledge and skills, thinking of these three aspects of continuous learning, exercise and accumulation. Specifically, the following points are to be achieved:

To learn more

Learn project management knowledge, business knowledge and software development and design techniques. In the absence of the project manager when the death of learning, turn yourself into an expert, do not crunch only issued "book to Time side hate less" feeling.

Be more observant, think

See how your project manager manages, think about where he's doing well, what's wrong with the project, and if it's you, how are you going to solve it? The so-called "Kung Fu pays off", to maintain this habit, you will manage the project will certainly be able to do handy.

You have to do everything with your heart.

Project management is not mysterious, it is a way of doing things, and almost every thing we do can be regarded as micro-projects, can do these tiny "project", it is possible in the future "big project" in a show of skill. On the contrary, if these small things do not always do well, it can be sure to say, to tube good one real projects, more difficult than the sky.

From programmer to Project Manager (23): Project management is not troubled waters