How To? Project Management

Project planning is the process of establishing the scope, defining the objectives and steps to obtain them. It is one of the most important of the processes that make up project management. The output of the project planning process is a project management plan. When it comes to planning your very first project, you may not know exactly where to begin. How do you accurately predict how long tasks will take? How do you translate stakeholder expectations into concrete deliverables? What if something goes wrong? A project plan, also known as a project management plan is a document that contains a project scope and objective. It is most commonly represented in the form of a Gantt chart, to make it easy to communicate to stakeholders. Learning how to develop a project plan doesn’t need to be complicated. Keep reading to learn what project planning steps to follow to create a project plan that your team will love. It’s not rocket science, as they say, to create ...

You are a professional and applied to a project management position recently. Employer invited you to the project manager interview. However, you did not attend in a job interview recently or you are nervous about the project manager interview you will attend. As most project managers who have interviewed directly for a project management position know, most generic interview questions lists don’t cut it. When interviewing for a project manager position, you want to do everything you can to let the interviewer see your team-building and leadership skills. While you should always be prepared for common job interview questions, there are manager-specific questions that you’ll want to make sure you have practiced before hand. Sure, many offices might ask you to “tell me about yourself” or “what are your greatest strengths,” but there are many more questions specific to project managers that you should expect in your upcoming interview. I’ve put together some interview tip...

Congratulations! you’ve made it. After a long time, maybe years, you have been assigned to manage your first project. You might have some help. You may have a mentor or two. But like any self-respecting project manager managing your 1 st project, you want to be independent. Project managers have the difficult task of not only launching a project, but also making sure that everything runs smoothly and collaborating with team members and the client. Being a project manager on your first project is a major challenge. In the following article, we will give you some tips to successfully manage your first project. 1) Write a General Overview To start, you need to create an overview that will guide you throughout the project. Define the purpose of the project. Be clear and include only the most important and realistic plans that you will execute.  The overview can serve as a guide if you face problems. 2) Define the Scope The first, and most important, step ...