Project Manager
Core Skills/Competencies
Enabling decision making
Comunicating and escalating
Flexibility
Strong Organizational Skills
Industries Knowlegies
Templates
Project management styles
Tools
Handling ambiguity
Flexible Plan
Assess external constraints
Plan for risks and challenges
Calculate float/slack in your schedule
Keep Calm
Express Empathy
Communicate what you know clearly
Make decisions and stick to them
Trust the expertise of your team
Interpessonal Skills (Influencing withou authority)
Communication
Negociation
Conflict mediation
Understanding motivations
Clear feedback
checking understand the progress of tasks
Liffecycle
Iniciate the project
Make a plan
Execute and complete tasks
Close the project
define project goals and deliverables
identify the budget and resources (people, equipment, software programs, physical space etc)
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document and get approval
creat a budget
managemant and Monitor progress
comunicate
Keep the team motivated
celebrate
reflect on lessons learned
formally move on > connect interested outsiders (ex.: next team)
set a schedule
estabilish your team
determine roles and responsibilities
Plan for risks and changes
estabilish comunications
what is expected, what tasks need to be done
what tasks need to be done
how and when to complete tasks
remove obstacles
comunicate delays
make adjustments
ensure all tasks have been completed
invoices paid
resources are returned and accounted for
project documentation has been submited
confirm acceptance of the project outcome
Comunicate results with stakeholders
Project Management Methodologies
A set of guiding principles and processes for owning a project through its lifecycle
Linear
Iterative
One phase starts when the previous finish
TV show
build a house
you know exactly how the house will look like
Agile
Waterfall
Scrum
able to move quickly and easily (changes)
willing to change and adapt
done in pieces
specific and ordered set of steps
clearly defined expectations, resources and goals that not likely to change
high uncertainly and risks
Lean Six Sigma
Save money
improve quality
move through processes quickly