What recommendations can be made to enhance project management practices?
How do you approach project planning and organization to ensure successful outcomes?
Can you highlight a specific project where your management approach led to particularly positive results? What strategies did you employ? Saving Changes...
I'll answer the question in your title as the others in the details of the post are a little too general and are very much subject to the context of the organization, industry and project in question.
I was inspired to get into project management by two main influences: my father whose last role was a project director for a hydroelectric mega-project and my manager in the second company I worked for who felt I might be good at the role of a PM and sent me on a power skills course for PMs.
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Claudeen PierreSenior Program ManagerDallas, TX, United States
I was most inspired to pursue Project Mangement by site visits as an Architectural Designer. Overtime, I realized that I enjoyed management more than the design process, but the actual transition came by referral. Saving Changes...
I was inspired to learn Project Management by a Manager of a Petroleum Company I worked for several years ago.
This manager suggested that, in addition to the activities I performed, I learn about project management, particularly the PMBOK content. Later, I was able to apply this knowledge by executing project management activities in the Data Management Department. My manager later allowed me to create a PMO to oversee the department's projects, where I applied all the experience I had acquired, creating processes, methodologies, tools, and templates that helped functional managers control their projects. Saving Changes...
I used to be a marketer, but I was getting pigeonholed into more and more niche roles specializing in one type of marketing. Every day started to look like the last. I realized during the pandemic that I preferred to be the connector of people, working more behind the scenes to get things done. I also believe being a good Project Manager entails being organized, and I've always loved that. Thank you for this question -- helps people remember their "why" :) Saving Changes...
I wasn't inspired - I didn't really know much about PM as a profession. I was working in tech support and in school for an AS in programming. After proving myself on smaller, team-level projects I was offered the opportunity to transition to a new role being created - a combined IT BA/PM position. It was several years before I was given the title "Project Manager', but I was doing the work and found that it was a good fit.
After I was working in the role and finished my AS, I started a BS in IT Project Management. Some of the classes I took might have turned me off to the career if I hadn't already been working in the field and experienced that it wasn't always like the textbooks. Saving Changes...
Thomas WalentaGlobal Project Economy ExpertHackenheim, Germany
The feedback I got from my first midsize project that I handled communications and conflicts well motivated me to change careers from technology to people.
I was a SW developer before and a systems engineer then and I understood that building technological knowledge means to start new every few years as technology expires. This can be considered waste over a lifetime (though it helps in the moment).
To really build on past knowledge, experience and wisdom, we need to work in the people business. Project management is people business. Saving Changes...
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