project-management

Week 1 - Embarking on a career in project management Week 2 - Becoming an effective project manager Key Project Manager Roles and Responsibilities Project Management Responsibilities Planning and organising. Making use of productivity tools and creating processes. Creating plans, timelines, schedules, and other forms of documentation to track project completion. Managing tasks. A project tasks is an activity that needs to be accomplished within a set period of time by you, your team or your stakeholders....

Last week, I am been encountered into the problem of allocating resource between different teams. Here is a quick guideline: Understand implications between different teams, and priorities. Work with stakeholders, run through all the options with them, and see if people agree or not. Keep the decision transparent. Don’t be helpfully unhelpful. Always generously providing support will lead others blind on their actual problem. Reference Float: Resource Allocation: 6 Steps Every Project Manager Should Know

Estimation technical project is always one of the the hardest thing in Project Management . There are so many moving factors that can easily affect the quality of Estimation, especially under certain conditions like time constrains and resource shortage. Contingency One of the good lessons I got is to add contingency into the estimation regardless. If we deliver things earlier than the deadline, that’s a good surprise. Otherwise, we still get enough buffer to get things done and deliver....

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