Principles in IT Project Management

I have been working in the IT project management profession for some years. Although I have not achieved any brilliant achievements, I have my own opinions on this profession, to comfort yourself. I want to share my understanding and summary with you today.

Nowadays, many enterprises are very concerned about the application of project management, hoping to manage enterprises with the same knowledge of application project management. Of course, this is also a trend. This is especially true for IT companies. IT project management is the core subset of IT company management, because it project management uses its unique leadership, organizational structure, and organizational process to support enterprise organizations and achieve their stated goals. Even so, this does not help it project managers effectively manage projects, just as we know about Grape sweetness, but still do not know how to plant grapes. There is a saying that "It project managers do not learn it, but do it. However, I do not want to deny learning, or I do not need to write this article.Article.

In IT project management, hard work is not equal to high performance, which is an indisputable fact. When I was just doing project management, I had to work for more than ten hours every day. Every day I went to work and ran between different departments. But at the end of the quarter, i'm depressed-performance is far from my expectation! This made me make up my mind to reflect on it for a while. Then I made a survey and visit to the relevant departments and technical personnel of the Project, which took about a month. Of course, during this period, the project could not be put down, but I only added some work points. The final conclusion was also unexpected: 60% of the people thought that the project team was not in place, 70% thought that I had disturbed their work, and 30% thought that information sharing was insufficient. I remember when I saw these results, I was so sad that I thought I was trying to have good performance and good comments. I didn't expect the results to be like this. Project results can be imagined, my first project dragged on for nearly three weeks!

However, these results further strengthen my decision to change the situation. I took the initiative to apply for the second project and thanked the boss for agreeing. At that time, I was very grateful. Then I began to adopt a series of reforms. First, I had to clarify the company's structure, objectives, and management system again, then I sorted out the project's organizational structure and set up a team, introduce project performance and IT project team performance appraisal, team training plan, etc. Through these measures, our project member satisfaction has increased significantly. In my current project, I am basically idle. I just spot check projects from time to time. At the end of the quarter, I will check my team and occasionally have a chat with the customer about the project. In a word from the assistant, it seems like it is getting better!

In fact, it project management needs to be constantly updated to enrich the concept. Without these new concepts, project managers can manage IT projects. Instead, project managers can rely solely on their knowledge, there cannot be any innovative aspects of the project, most of which are the follow of the original project, so there is no challenge for our IT project manager! Some new practical ideas can also help the project manager to integrate IT systems and control some key management measures, such as common risk management, requirement management, and document management. After all, a good IT project management can work with relevant departments of the company to make good use of the company's existing resources and support the management activities organized by the company. The following is my comments and specific principles and methods. I hope you can help me more.

1. Announce your project expectations

The project is to achieve the project goal and support the company goal. Before creating a project, you must pass your expectations for the project and the company's expectations to everyone in the Project Working Group. This is also to make everyone in the IT project team look at the key of the project from the same perspective. In practice, we need to grasp the following points:

Team values

What are your values? The value determines the work behavior, effort, attitude, value orientation, morality, and sense of responsibility of the IT project team. Only when these concepts or concepts are recognized by everyone in the team can the IT project really start.

Policies and standards

How do you control and measure the project progress? Each person in the team has a scale in mind. The IT project manager wants to unify these hidden scales, but everyone knows. The key to ensuring orderly project implementation and control.

In-depth Communication

How do you convince others of your expectations and management measures? This is not only within the team, but more importantly, it is necessary to communicate with your superiors and customers so that they can understand your views and requirements and expectations for the project. This is the source to ensure project resources.

Clear strategy

Which path does your project take? Most IT projects follow the company's development strategy. To achieve success in this regard, the support of superiors is indispensable. You cannot take it for granted. With the support of your superiors, you must let each team member know where they are and where the project is going.

2. Carefully manage your projects

This is because many IT project managers know this but cannot. This problem exists in the example I mentioned above. Management by heart is not really a task that allows you to manage your resources. Instead, you should pay attention to all the things that happen in your project and promptly identify those that are advantageous and harmful. At the same time, it is worth mentioning that the development mechanism of the Project is also generated here. For example, when you are at work, you find someone spreading some information, negative, and positive. What do you think? Yes, we will first think of getting rid of the negative and carrying forward positive news. However, I have tried this method, but it does not work. Instead, it will make the spread of negative information more extensive. When we change our minds to do this-I use positive reinforcement and positive reinforcement of positive information-we may be able to see the next step!

3. Be sure to have incentives

The IT project manager is the leader of the team. As a leader, motivation is indispensable. It is interesting to inspire things because it is challenging the ability of project managers to understand people. IT managers are also confused. In fact, in the project team, incentives must be associated with rewards or rewards. The effectiveness of incentives should be guaranteed by rewards and rewards. Otherwise, it can only be a short-lived incentive with no efficiency or effect. Therefore, we must pay attention to the combination of the two in practice. In terms of the most common internal training, if appropriate rewards and rewards are not provided, it is simply a dream to encourage everyone to give their knowledge and experience selflessly. Of course, if it is mandatory, it should be another matter. But the effect cannot be good.

4. Be aware of the makeup

I often think about this problem at work, because there may be people in the project team who have something urgent to handle or get sick from time to time. If this person is the main force of the project team and his work is on a critical path, this vacancy will affect the project, what's worse is that if it project managers cannot find someone to replace it, it will be more troublesome. There is no way to deal with such things once and for all, but we can use some methods to reduce the uncertainty caused by these factors. For example, we often talk to the families of members, ready to go into battle in person at any time to train people with various work abilities. In short, we need to have this sense of makeup, and it is necessary.

5. often go to the Ministry of Vocational and Technical Support"

"Diligence and diligence" is a concept and method that I have always advocated. This is not to allow the project manager to "chat", but to have a good relationship with the leadership of the vocational department and obtain some views on the project and project-related information from them, it also paves the way for the project. At work, I found that this method can solve many problems at work and improve the communication skills between myself and various leaders. This method has benefited me a lot!

6. Educate and train your assistant

This is the idea of authorization. Without training and education, the assistant may not help you with some valuable work. As a project manager, you will have to worry about everything and be exhausted. Of course, this is also related to the project manager's character and ability. Like I am not very competent, so I have always wanted to push some important things to the assistant, but before pushing them to him, I must see that he is not suitable and not suitable, give him education and training. If it is not suitable, change the assistant! So my point is that IT project managers must find someone who can replace you as an assistant, educate and train them, and ultimately assign them the right and responsibility.

7. Remember to train you

Training can make your team more combiner and facilitate the flow of information within the team. I don't want to talk about this much. We need to decide how to do it according to the specific form of the project team. However, it is important to note that, even if it is a team of all the IT elites in the world, they cannot accept training. On the one hand, they must improve themselves, and on the other hand, the team should stay ahead. Therefore, training is essential!

8. handle the relationship with superiors

Finally, let's talk about the relationship with the boss. This involves a bit of corporate politics, but since it is corporate politics, everyone in the company can't escape, only care and don't care. The IT project manager is appointed by the supervisor, who thinks that you have the ability to appoint you. In other words, it project managers have to sell their jobs to their superiors. I have been familiar with many IT project management projects. Some of them are poor in ability, but companies still reuse them. Some of them are strong in ability, but companies regard him as mediocre. This is the political issue of the company. When you are working on a project, the IT project manager must always remind himself that everything you do is provided by your boss. If you want to withdraw it, God will not help you! Therefore, we only remind you to pay attention to your superiors while focusing on projects.

Reprinted from http://www.mypm.net/blog/user1/17466/archives/2012/88713.html