Business Skills For Career Planning
May 10, 2008
Something I have become more directly interested in recently is project manager, within the field of business management.
Here are some of my research notes:
project manager can be defined by - The primary function of project manager is to ensure that the project is implemented to meet the established budget, schedule, safety, and performance requirements to satisfy its objectives.
I like the idea of Performance Management - Total communication and pin-point accountability, for small teams. You might not have a rigidly established budget, you might simply be trying to use what you have to make more. You might not a specific scheduled deadline for project delivery, but you might have plans and goals that you want to reach faster and easier.
Getting Things Done Principles are basic practical personal steps for Project Management:
1. Collect
2. Process
3. Organize
4. Review
5. Do
Many possible aspects or divisions of Project Management
* Requirements management
* Subcontract management
* Deliverables management
* Risk management
* Scope management
* Performance management
Questions used in by project managers:
* How much will this project cost?
* When will it be done?
* What is the confidence in these estimates?
* How will I recognize done when it arrives?
* What skills, experiences, tools, and processes will be needed to successfully complete the project on-time, on-budget, on-technical and business specifications?
These questions are core to the principles of project management. The interpersonal activities are necessary but far from sufficient. Especially when considering career planning.
I will be expading these notes about project manager considerably.
What are the skills of good management?
I would be a fool to think I know all of them.
Project Management divides into Project planning and carrying out the Project execution. While training employees on Project Management, focus on:
1. Availability of resources.
2. Analysis of the various risks in the manipulation of the Project & lateral plans to solve the same.
3. Based on the availability of resources prudence in its usage.
4. Blue print of the Projects step by step proceedings and a review etc.,
Ken Blanchard uses the acronym PERFORM to explain the necessary characteristsics of high performing teams.
Your role in management is to develop the skills necessary to faciliate PERFORM.
* Purpose and Values
* Empowerment
* Relationships and communication
* Flexibility
* Optimal Performance
* Recognition and Appreciation
* Morale
You will find that they all share these three:
Planning the Project or Goal
Execution of the Goal including management
Measurement of the Goal
Additionally, these three supporting processes are present in part or in all of these definitions:
People or teamwork working together to achieve the goal
Goal Achievement to achieve the desired goal
Quality to ensure continuous improvement within the goa
Ultimately, project management represents DISCIPLINE, ORGANIZATION, and ACCOUNTABILITY; which are three areas people seem to have a natural aversion to these days.
So go to it: career planning.
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This post is good, but the descriptions of project management could be developed a whole lot further. The is a whole body of knowledge out there about project management - the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge). The author might want to refer to this for further detail about this most popular framework for professional project management.