New software project manager (13)-suggestions for new users

"When Zhang San, the Project Manager, passed the seat of developer Li Si, he suddenly found that Li Si was reading a book" How to Become a project manager? ". Zhang San asked Li Si, why are you not a project manager? Li Si replied that it would be too late to wait until you look at it again ." I was impressed by the book I forgot to see.

1.The growth path of the Project Manager

 

Go back to the typical project management questions. If you are a project manager and the project team is not able to finish the work before the deadline, you are:

1. prioritize projects and sacrifice people --> point to Zone B

2. Ensure priority for people and sacrifice projects --> point to Zone C

3. Both projects and people --> point to Area D

What is your choice?

1.1Story 1

A large enterprise has implemented cmme for many years, and the entire company has formed a strong Zone B culture with a large number of project managers in Zone B. However, agility has been a hot topic recently. The boss spoke about it and the company wants to turn to agility. As shown in the following figure, isn't it a new process and a new document. However, the disadvantage of agility is that it is difficult to pretend that, after several years, there have been few achievements. What should I do? Recently, they started recruiting agile coaches and hiring agile consultants. But can this help them migrate from Zone B to Zone D? Difficult.

In other words, Zone B is the farthest from Zone D. Once you make a choice, it will be more difficult to make a change than the new one.

2.Suggestions for beginners

It is always the most embarrassing job to give suggestions. Besides, what qualifications do I have to offer to others. It is a suggestion, rather a summary and alert to previous successes and failures. These summaries and alerts will continue to guide me on subsequent projects.

2.1Admit that you do not know

Attitude is the most fundamental issue, which affects the implementation of the following suggestions. We need to maintain reverence, which is also the reason why I will give so many cases. The problem that the project manager should deal with is too complicated, so that no one can fully understand all the details.

However, we have various concerns that prevent us from recognizing this point. We are worried about losing prestige in front of our team, losing trust in front of our leaders, losing face, and worrying about ....... So we don't look for help, so we move forward alone, and we fail alone.

Maybe we have been brainwashed and believe that the project can be completed as long as we make a plan and execute it according to the plan. In front of the project, we are God, and we are God ".

2.2Find more mentors and fewer enemies

The more friends you have, the fewer enemies you have. The more mentors you have, the more methods you have. If the company has a Project Manager mentoring system, it would be best, but it seems that it has never seen such a company. What should I do? Find it by yourself.

First, you can find a project manager tutor in the company. In this way, you can discuss and consult with him about all project-related issues. You are no longer alone. If the relationship is good, he can even use his interpersonal relationships to help you solve seemingly difficult problems.

You can consult HR as your interpersonal relationship consultant, financial as financial knowledge consultant, architect as your technical consultant, boss, boss or other managers as your management consultant, the customer serves as your business consultant.

Of course, you can also find a mentor outside the company, but their direct help to you is not as great as the mentor in the company.

2.3You are working on the project, not XXX

I heard a lot of arguments about project management, "You do not match XXX, You do not match XXX ". My God, is XXX working on a project or are you working on a project? But many project managers believe this. I recently learned cmme, tried it according to cmme, learned scrum, and tried it according to scrum. Then, I said that both cmme and scrum were shit and the project was not successful.

It is good to keep a studious attitude, but do not take the knowledge you have learned. Remember that you are working on a project, and you are responsible for success or failure. No matter how you end, XXX is still happy.

See the subsequent article 14 you know too much-no responsibility evaluation project management.

2.4Move and adjust again

I believe everyone has played the top game since childhood. If you want to play with a gyro, you must make it work. It is not enough to keep moving, so that the balance can be maintained for a long time. In this process, you need to keep beating it and give it extra strength, and it will become faster and smoother.

The project is like a gyro. Do not spend too much time waiting for it to start first. The only difference is that we are a part of the gyro, so we must learn to correct it. Do not try to get the fastest from the beginning. Refer to the subsequent article 15 "change now"-Recommend agility to the project manager.