Why do the vast majority of project managers keep fighting fires?

Why do the vast majority of project managers keep fighting fires?

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How to effectively control project risk?

--To get rid of the daily fire fighting situation

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Article overview

Part I: Project risk management Three main reasons for no effect

Part II: How to logically identify project risks

The third part: can understand the context of risk, to obtain the support of others

Part IV: Only the "people" can be implemented in the risk response measures to play a role

Key points to share in this issue

1, why the project risk management people do not?

2. Why are the vast majority of project managers constantly fighting fires?

3, the project risk management failure of the three main reasons: no purpose to identify risks, unclear what the risks are, risk response measures to implement the people

4, the project risk management must pay attention to four parts

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This issue of the series to share with you is the project risk management, Why do you want to talk about this topic? because the project risk is more difficult, reflected in we found in many projects, in fact, we all know that risk management is very important, but really can manage the very few! And we find that a project is doing well and poorly, the risk management of the project is very large, so this time to talk about more is the project risk of several points.

Because you know, project risk management It is actually a very large area, more accurate risk management itself is a very large area, when this thing on the project and then cross the boundary, it becomes the project and the risk of such a intersection, in such a intersection, we exactly In the process of the project how to manage, it certainly can not be associated with the enterprise management system of a pipe risk control method. then what is the way we can make this risk management tool work for our project , which is actually the main thing to talk about, not to discuss the system of risk management, Just pick out the key points of several project risk management to talk about.

a , Why the project risk management people do not?

Speaking of this project risk management, in fact, I am very emotional, project risk management is actually the most difficult project management , why is the hardest? because it is actually a predictable way of working, we know that in our world the hardest thing is to predict the future, risk it is actually the future uncertainty. Many times we find who can accurately predict the future trend, can make the future uncertainty into a certainty, that also means who can occupy the opportunity, can be less detours. That's the way it is for projects.

a lot of times why do we do project management? in fact, mainly hope that through the future path of the project and the trend or the goal of the forecast, can let everyone to the original uncertainty of things into a certain, so that we have the opportunity to less detours to make mistakes , in fact, this is also a project management of the beginning of the original intention, But it's going to be very hard!

We find that the reason why the prediction is difficult because he is actually looking for a regular, because a lot of time the prediction is not a blind guess, the real prediction is to give a variety of information before the analysis of the collection and accumulation of various information, and then from the inside to find the law, along this rule we can predict the future development trend , and it is the same in a project that exists . So what does our forecast represent for us in the project, its future trends? That's what we call the project plan. A lot of times, in fact, we are in the process of planning it itself is to do a prediction of things, there are certain and uncertain, then this uncertainty is actually what we say the risk.

Second, why are most project managers constantly fighting fire?

The reason we want to talk about the project risk management is because, the certainty of something that it would have been predicted or not predicted may not have a particularly large impact, but this uncertainty, if we do not accurately predict it, then may appear in the future, it will bring a variety of problems to the project, That is what we often say about the need to change, the scope will change, a variety of unexpected events may disrupt our original rhythm and thinking, so this is why we have to conduct risk management reasons.

I do the project manager's course, see a very obvious phenomenon, in fact, the project management of its original life cycle are similar, or actually we want to do this live, eat this bitter, in fact, this quantity is similar, Of course, the manager of the project management level is relatively low with the project management level of the project manager he has a relatively large difference, the level of the project manager he often in the early stages of the project before the actual implementation of the time and energy to spend more , why?

Because it takes a lot of time to prepare for the project, analyze the requirements, design the project, plan the project, predict the risk of the project, then eat more hard in the early days, more brain, that the whole project will be more accurate prediction, then the implementation of the project will become a smooth process. Some project managers spend less time upfront, rushed into the project, in the project process because a lot of things did not think, so in fact, a lot of pits also around the past, the results will be caused in the project in the process of a variety of unexpected problems, a lot of unexpected reason is because did not think.

we thought before the project more, then the accident is less, not before, that must be unexpectedly more, then the unexpected situation is more, will find constantly in the "fire", is not here to come out the problem is there problems, in fact, there is no province at all. As long as the project manager is doing the project, he must spend his energy on the brain, and see whether the brain is moving before the project is implemented or after the project is implemented. In fact, from the original intention of the project management, is to hope that everyone through the actual implementation of the project, the effort to think seriously, and then to accurately predict the process behind, and then through the pre-careful analysis of the process and forecast risk, to reduce the subsequent occurrence of the problem, So that's one of the reasons we're talking about project risk management, which is important.

In order to make this problem clear, I divided it into four parts in a subsequent article. The first part I mainly talk about three points, is the project risk management has no effect of the three main reasons.

Third main reason for the failure of Project risk management

01/non-purpose to identify risks

The first reason is that there is no scope, no purpose, and broad risk identification when identifying project risks. At this time in fact, the risk we are looking for may not necessarily be a risk to our project objectives, so you know that the project management he is actually pay attention to 28 principles, not only project management, as long as the management of it is actually to speak 28 principles. You know Peter Drucker once said, this management it is not absolutely right and wrong, plainly, management can be right or wrong, then where is the difference? The main difference in your scene, the difference in your goal!

So most of the time when we talk about management we have to talk about management based on some goals and scenarios, so that we know how to manage where he is going and how much it fits! In fact, management is valuable at this time. when we talk about project management risk management is the same , for example, including the identification of project risk, can not be broadly identified, because the general identification is not meaningful, we have to identify the overall goal of the project to the greatest impact on the risk, there must be a logical main line to identify. Often aimless to identify risks he is often the first major factor in the failure of this risk management. Plainly is to find out the risk is not the key risk, usually the most worrying is not to find the risk, is to find a lot of meaningless risks, both delay everyone's time and did not play an effect.

02/ I don't know what the risk is .

The second more important reason is that it is unclear what the risk is. Some project managers are able to find out some of the key risks, but not good at expressing, or that they do not want to be particularly clear, the result is that although know at a certain point there is a risk but because there is no way to understand the other people can not impress, can not move others can not get other people's support, no one support it, In fact, risk identification is also equal to no recognition, so usually this is the second reason.

03/ Risk response measures not being implemented

The third reason is that the project manager can find the key risks, but also can give others understand what the risk is, and can get other people's support, then there is a response, there may be resources, but the only problem is that the risk response is not put into the human body , If it is said that the risk response is not implemented to the right people, then found that the matter is not implemented.

Therefore, usually the risk management has no effect, I summarized the above three main reasons. First of all, can you find the most critical risk in your project? Second, can you give others a sense of the risk of the ins and outs of obtaining support from others; The third is whether the last thing can be done to a person.

Why do you always talk about putting it to one person? There is a culture in our country called "disloyal", this disloyal is said that whenever a thing to fall to the people is not responsible for everyone, so usually a thing if we want him to happen, really want someone to do this thing as a matter of their own, That must be accurate to a person, not to a department, nor to the implementation of a post, he must actually fall to a person, plainly, as long as this person can not run, then this person when he can not run, he will work hard to get this thing landed.

Iv. four parts to be concerned with project risk management

Project Risk Management The first piece that I want to talk about is the three main reasons that the project risk management has no effect; the second part: How to make a logical identification of the project risk; Part III: Can understand the context of risk, to obtain the support of others; Part IV: Only the risk response to "people" can be fulfilled.

above I put the first part of these three reasons for a slightly expanded, the main purpose is to talk about countermeasures , so the second part we actually want to give you the analysis, how to do a logical project risk identification, we have to have a kind of routine, the third part the problem we have to solve is how we can make this risk clear, and be able to talk about this matter with everyone, let people pay attention to him! Then the fourth part of the problem is to say that the risk of it in the landing, it is not only in the implementation of a person, he certainly is to have a man responsible, but in fact he is often to be implemented in a small team, in fact, by a small team to solve a risk, Then we have to analyze how many different roles he has in a team, and what are these people in control of? When we can divide his character directly, we will be better able to make sure that the risk falls to the ground. These are the points I want to share with you in this series of articles.

Next we look at the first part, that is, we first together to carefully analyze the general risk management is not the main reason for the effectiveness of it? ......

Why do the vast majority of project managers keep fighting fires?