I am a newbie and fresh graduated with no experiences in working with IT Project Management. Some of the IT Project Managements' lectures had been address during my degree. However, i think they are not enough for me to deal with any real/practical of any Projects. i am looking for idears or advise in order to get a more depth of understanding in ITPM.
Could you please give me some advise such as: Tools that a project manager needs to know, Process of IT Project Management,.... i feel very blur to deal with ITPM and might not know what to do even if i am assigned to run a project.
I am sorry if there is any conveniences with the questions.
Kimsan - welcome to the profession. I sympathize with you feelings. It is frightening to leave school and begin working in your profession. I am sure your professors have some advice that they might provide if you approached them.
In regards to your questions, I suggest you learn MicoSoft Project. While it is not the only or best project management software, it is used by many organizations, and it does provide a good tool for learning how to define work breakdown structures, schedules, and baselines. I would not use MS Project as your only resource. In my experience - working backwards from the deliverables produces the most consistent results. A clear understanding of the work to be delivered allows you to clearly define the work that will need to be performed in order to create those deliverables, and how much time that effort will entail. Naturally, understanding how much time it takes to create each deliverable allows you to identify your schedule and development and delivery time line. Once you have those in place - you can begin the work of what has to be removed in order to meet the end date established by the company, your boss, or other circumstances.
All of these are possible if you understand fully what the project entails. Alternatively, you can develop you project by creating and delivering one deliverable at a time - RAD, SCRUM, etc, all use this type of approach to rapidly deliver components of a whole.
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George JucanManaging Partner| Organizational Perfomance Enablers NetworkWoodbridge, Ontario, Canada
Kimsan, I have difficulties even trying to imagine what you’re going through, trying to learn to swim directly in deep water! I had the advantage of working “through the ranks” and being part of many project before leading them, so I learned both from the books and seeing others both succeeding and failing. To get quickly up to speed my advice would be to get the PMBOK and read it through – while some topics require real-life experience to really “get it”, the PMBOK will give you a pretty good idea about how things should be done, and probably are done in most projects. Also, PMI has a compendium of templates and tools (CD) that would kick-start your documentation capabilities (as PMs we do lots of documents).
And last (but not least) advice: don’t be afraid to make mistakes or recognize that you don’t know and you have to do some reading to know what to do. Even senior PMs need to brush up their skills from time to time, especially when they are faced with a type of project they did not perform in a while. We all have to read and learn continuously, so keep learning and you’ll be fine. Good luck, and when you hit obstacles come back on gantthead and ask the community for help.
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