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What is that, the very essence of a Project Manager?
Project management is one of those things that seems very complex when you’re starting out. But after you been doing it for a while, it really turns out to be a good dose of common sense with some science and discipline added in.
The cool gambler is not the one who’s winning when cards are good, but the one who is not loosing when there are no good cards.
Project Management requires a broad range of skills. I joke sometimes that it requires being a “coach, den mother, drill sergeant, teacher, and therapist”—all rolled into one.
Communication seems to be the biggest issue in most workplaces, and it’s only exacerbated with a global team.
When you have to go deep on it, you should use some methods or quality tools to ensure that your project will go on well.
Starting any project, it’s worth thinking about – what the picture will be like in result. Anyway, it won’t be down to the last detail like you intended it to be. It’s so, because there will be other people who will take part…
Do you want that every colleague and executor becomes a mini project manager in his area of responsibility?
We are sure that your business is already growing or will grow thanks solely to people who work with you…
The most important thing for promising projects which can bring to you much benefit in result – is no money, nor website, but your experience, human attitude and real, sensible view on things…
Your eyes get used to the light. The light of your own and others’ certificates around… The powerful and bright present day has already come...
PMP certificate is an excellent chance to codify all the experience you have in the project management field. It’s true. But. It gives no guarantees of your stable professional life in future. And it’s extremely far away (in our opinion) of being the last point in your development and to be the limit of your aspirations. To obtain the certificate is not easy. Justify its presence for yourself – is unremitting toil.
Let’s keep talking on our little joint attempt and continue our imaginative travel through the Ethnopark – the museum of accessible and live history. Let’s try «to drop in for tea» to our ancestors, who created by their own hands the usual life they lived within, thousands and thousands years ago. That life that we call the history today.
High precipitous bank of the Volga running beyond the horizon from the one side, and dense coniferous forest with its dark sparkling needle playing on the dawning sun from the other, and wide unmown meadow and rich grass covered with drops of dew on the third side. It is possible to keep this harmony by placing the Ethopark on the fourth side.
The world consists of systems – small and huge ones. All of them come into being, progress, blossom out and die. Business represents a complicated system, and what first it’s so complicated with is the fact that interacting elements are people there.
How to make possible the quality regeneration of business?
Different people see the world differently – in unique way, corresponding to their individual experience. And real profis always have their own “effective” look on the world.
All man’s life is a calm train or rapid mixture (as one likes) of different projects. It’s not just a work, but life. Something influences us and we influence something. Or, for all that, is any “something”, first of all, the result of people’s actions, and not just circumstances juncture independent of people? We influence people through changing something in our day-to-day life. But what do we manage working in the project?
Just another report of the next project execution’s step has been arrived. There are lots of letters, too many figures, graphs and diagrams. And there are much more execution indices and effectiveness figures. Also there is something about terms, budget and risks. Then, comparison of the plan and the fact is everywhere. Will you read such report like this? I’m sure, you won’t.
Easy, short-spoken, organic and beautiful things often go hand in hand with each other. And it’s possible to make the world around more beautiful and more organic, even by creating a simple text document. We came to this point, and decided to carry out these training courses at our company. In our opinion something accessible and useful did come out in result.
Any scheme is vulgar here, but it lets to facilitate the life for our understanding. So does the “Commander formula”: it lets to describe – easily and laconically as well as broadly – the very core of a successful commander and in general – any effective manager.
Have you ever tried to work the four together by one computer? Truly said, even the two together is already hardly convenient… And what to do if usual workdays pass mostly in collective work? And moreover – with mass of information requiring collective review, edit and discussion. There is need for a certain suitable set of tools… The number of soft/hard ware as well as interface imperfections of existing solutions on the market don’t let using them in collective work. But, we consider, here the real solution is.
What we struggle for in the course of bargaining in some game? What is the import of game? What is gain in game and what it is made up of?
These questions are important enough, and it’s necessary to sort out the matter here and form a picture in the way to be able to sort out deeper the game practice.
Today we put into practice what will very soon become history. The same thing was concerning all the long move of many centuries before us. But we don’t create crock piles. We live. History – that’s movement, actions, life. The life of numerous tribes and peoples residing in separate settlements and vast territories.
So what is it, the Games Theory?
The games theory is the branch of mathematics studying mathematical models of decision-making in so-called conflict situations or in conflict conditions.
So, what’s that – the games theory in real life? What we’d like is just to find the answer for this question.
Child’s wishes are sincere, and it always knows what it wants to get. But adults often realize dimly and unconsciously what they do want in fact, or their interests are so abstract that, consequently, they gain much fewer, especially if to measure results in real “toys”
Our everyday intensive life requires more and more high-skilled and organized systems for business planning, enterprise development or company staff effective interaction in the way to achieve joint goals by joint efforts with less wastes and more effectiveness.
We all live, communicate, work. What’s around us? The reality. But what is the reality?
“Bookish” determination of reality is quite simple: “Reality is the whole world with all the multidiversity of its forms”. By this, it’s to admit: there are the objective reality and the subjective reality.
What if the final goal of the project you’re carrying out is designing of the new cell phone model? At the same time, you need to use a machine as compulsory toll, which makes yield of wooden bricks with coffee cup sizes, and with the obligatory condition of full absence of verbal communication with other project participants. Is it absolutely unreal situation? Or?
Let’s imagine the situation. You manage the project. You manage any project. You manage terms, payments, and risks. What makes your management “lively”? It seems that nothing does. But what if to take a look on the situation from the other side, and to imagine your management as an influence on live people. It’s about influencing not only people you work with, but also people, whose personal reality is changing by moving toward the project’s goal.
Project communication is such communication among participants and stakeholders within work on project leading to attainment of required project eventual result and project objective carrying out. Effective communication is an indispensable result for network-centric structure of the project by LMP method.
Methodology of «Lively management of projects» is based on systems approach, implying the systems theory usage in project management. A project is regarded as a set (hierarchy) of all project participants and relations between them, consequently project management – as initiation and realization of purposeful managerial influences on all project participants and stakeholders to get project goals attained.
It turns out too often that in practice outstanding works in business come as logic result of strategic thinking and planning. But how to motivate yourself and your project team here in the way to achieve the clear and concrete goals? Maybe, one should paint oneself into a corner, and only after – start the project?
In the previous article («How to Understand Each Other? Talk to An Infant») we studied, going into details, how people interact as intelligent beings. We “arranged” with you about speech origin as first attempt to share inner ideas and try to communicate. We came to conclusion that up-to-date optimal form of suchlike interaction is language.
But languages are different… Was it so all the time in the past?
Once they said of my path: You’ll meet ocean of death, And I turned back my way. What I see ahead since: Wild and blind path extends…” Akiko Yosano, “Cowardice”
What it’s about?
Probably, about lack of straightforwardness and frequent inconsistency in movement of ours to numerous different directions
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