Project Management in Real Life
From the Project Management in Real Life Blog
by Drake Settsu
Sharing my Project Management adventures and some tips.
I like to keep my articles brief and to the point.
Project Management is an Art, Science, and Discipline.
Just keep it simple and have fun!
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I have a personal blog called Just Drake's View where I write about Project Management and my adventures in life.
My blog post called Project Management in Real Life on my personal blog drakesettsu.blogspot.com/2017/05/project-management-in-real-life.html inspired me to name my blog on projectmanagement.com with the same name.
Project Managers in real life need to be creative by reaching in their tool box to do whatever it takes to lead a team to a successful project delivery. It's all about good judgment to tailor a way to get the results from the team you are handed. I like to think of it like corralling baby chicks around the yard to get them in a nice formation to follow you.
I believe that Project Management is about delivering the objectives of the Project Charter. The Project Manager will be the point person for all the project activities being accountable for ensuring that the project team operates efficiently to stay on track and keeps communication flowing.
Summary
Run your Projects with transparency to promote open communication to flush out potential problems and misunderstandings. Publish frequent project status reports for all to see the progress being made. You need to be a creative leader to find ways to lead your team.
Posted on: December 29, 2017 10:26 PM |
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I completely agree with Summary mentioned above.
Project Managers are constantly challenged with changing customers requirements, resource shortages, competition with other projects and economic uncertainties and other internal and external factors. To match up with this uncertain environment of projects, PMs needs to be creative and innovative to be successful.
Thank you Drake for a great article.
Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Good Post Drake. I like the name of your personal blog.
It's good that the external blog has been going several years, great job.
Drew Craig
Sr. Agile & Product Coach| Vanguard
Philadelphia, Pa, United States
Thanks for sharing your post Drake.
Thanks for sharing Drake.
Happy new year.
Nice post. Thanks for sharing.
Anish Abraham
Privacy Program Manager| University of Washington
Auburn, Wa, United States
Good post and thanks for sharing
Thank you everyone for your feedback.
Marios Efthymiou
Consultant - Coach - Trainer| Affirma Consulting and Coaching
Lefkosia, Cyprus
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