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SYSTEM
MANAGEMENT
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
TIPS
TRICKS
TRAPS
Team
members Project
manager
Saravanan
Team
Saravana pandian
leader
Santhosh kabilan
sidarth
OVERVIEW
DEFINITION
TIPS
PROJECT
MANAGEMENT TRICKS
TRAPS
01
Project:
Defined start PM
and end, specific DEFINITION
scope, cost and
duration
Into Projects
Within Projects
Out of Projects
Make sure everyone involved gets the information they need 03
Real World Project Management
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT
SUCCESS
TIPS
budget Client
acceptance
success
schedule performance
20 SUCCESS
PROJECT MANAGEMENT TIPS
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Laying the
1. Define project
foundation
success
criteria
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Laying the
foundation 3. Define product release criteria
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Laying the
foundation 4. NEGOTIATE COMMITMENTS
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Planning
the project 1. WRITE A PLAN
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Planning
the project 2. DECOMPOSE TASKS TO
INCH PEBBLE-GRANULARITY
12
Planning
the project 3. PLAN FOR REWORK AFTER A
QUALITY CONTROL TASK
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Planning
the project 3. MANAGE PROJECT RISKS
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Planning 4. PLAN TIME FOR PROCESS
the project IMPROVEMENT
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Planning
the project
4. RESPECT THE LEARNING CURVE
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Estimating 1.ESTIMATE BASED ON EFFORT, NOT
the work CALENDAR TIME
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Estimating 2. DON’T OVER SCHEDULE MULTI
the work TASKING PEOPLE
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Estimating
the work
3. BUILD TRAINING TIME INTO THE
SCHEDULE
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Estimating 4. RECORD ESTIMATES AND HOW
the work DERIVED THEM
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Estimating 5. USE ESTIMATION TOOLS
the work
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Estimating
the work 6.PLAN CONTINGENCY BUFFERS
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Tracking
progress 1. RECORD ESTIMATES AND ACTUAL
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Tracking 2. COUNT TASKS AS COMPLETE ONLY
progress WHEN THEY’RE 100% COMPLETE
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Tracking 3. TRACK PROJECT STATUS
progress OPENLY AND HONESTLY
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PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
TRICKS
PM TRICKS
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Ten Tricks
1. Spend time with customers
2. Ask “dumb” questions
3. Let go of your past
4. Surround yourself with experts
5. Gather data
6. Focus
7. Concentrate on what, not how
8. Communicate, communicate, communicate
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2 Ask “dumb” questions Tricks
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5
Gather data Tricks
• Lots of different
types of data…
– Internal data
– External data
– Market data
– Product data
Data: Uploaded to flickr by kokeshi
flickr.com/photos/kokeshi/119345900/
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6 Focus Tricks
• It will be overwhelming
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7 Concentrate on what, not how Tricks
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Communicate, communicate…
8 Tricks
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8 Communication Tricks
Executives Customers
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Engineering Design
9 Sell your product internally Tricks
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10 Do whatever it takes Tricks
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PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
TRAPS
1.“We’ll know when we get there”
2. “Bright shiny thing syndrome”
3.“Trust me – I’ve been here
15 years”
4.“We are different – you can’t
compare us to them”
5.The benefits are intangible”
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PROJECT
MANAGEMENT
TRAPS
6.“We already did the business case”
7.“We can do this ourselves, it’s nothing
new”
8.“Training was done once, done one way,
and in advance”
9.We have an ERP system that does all our
automated processes”
10.“We only implement Best Practices
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conclusion
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Source of information
• www.pmi.org
• www.processimpact.com
•www.goodproductmanager.com
• Project Management, Harold Kerzner, 5th Edition
• PMBOK, PMI 2000
•Jesse’s Project Management Tips
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