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