Project Management first chapter project selection

Chapter One project selection
Project selection is an important part of project management, and successful project management cannot be separated from the correct project selection.
Refer to Pmbok, Project definition: Temporary work for the creation of unique products, services or results.
Start-work-end. Then the choice of project is to decide whether the project should be implemented.
There are a variety of project categories, mainly: Software engineering, operations and maintenance categories, personnel, such as the class, free to maintain the category, product development, pre-sales category, management, other (pre-research, learning training Class). This article is mainly for the Software engineering class project to explain.
As a project manager, project success is the first required option. Therefore, before undertaking the project manager position, we can find the relevant factors to judge the success of the project, and then analyze it. Commonly used have a SWOT [s for strength (advantage), W for weakness (weak), O for Opportunity (opportunity), T for threat (threat)], or a factor weight rating.
Forward to
The necessity of the project
Feasibility of the project
Priority of the project
Suitability of the project
The development of the project
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Reverse
Customer loss
Company losses
Personal loss
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Analysis and then decide whether to assume the project management of this project.

The ideal is plump, the reality is very bony.
· If it is from the technical position to the management position, I believe that the technology to do very good people. From the technology to management, not only need a strong technical background is very capable, but also need to change thinking. Technical staff are concerned about their own needs are good, and management needs of the project stakeholders need to have insight, the team members and stakeholders of the psychological, emotional needs to understand.
· For the project manager who already has the project in hand, it is recommended to do the process judgment of the project selection when undertaking the new project. After all, a person's energy capacity is limited, can not Guppelt lose this, if the failure of the individual company is also a loss. Of course, if you have the confidence to challenge the project portfolio or project management, it is also recommended to do a little analysis of the project itself to control, the status of the project to be aware.

If the result of analysis is biased to not undertake, but can not evade, also proposed in the undertaking project according to the analysis of the results of the corresponding requirements, such as: to increase the strength of manpower, increase the cost of implementation, reduce the scope of the project, the PMO to provide project support. To increase the success rate of project implementation.