October 1, 2017
Perfect Project Manager
I thought PMP certification would make me a perfect project manager! Unfortunately, many professionals believe that only getting an industry certification like PMP, APMPQ or Prince 2 would make them in to a flawless project manager. But then realize that there is much more required to know the trade secrets of the job. In my viewpoint, a project manager must have a combination of hard skills and some critical soft skills. Hard skills like process
September 13, 2017
Why Program Management?
Importance of Program Management Have you ever wondered about a project that was completed within the quality criteria, scope, time and cost but was not realized as beneficial to the organization? The general mindset is that projects delivered under the set constraints are successful but these are not true success factors in terms of achieving optimum organizational value. Project’s entire focus rightly is on to complete deliverable ignoring most of the time external factors. Certain
July 17, 2017
Risk blog
Risk Management for Projects Usually people get confuse between risk and issues, risks are potential threats which might or might not impact and issues are something which have already impacted. Hence, if risks are well managed, it can turn into opportunities and provide unexpected gains to the projects. Risk management is a common process in most projects. It is whereby the threats to a project are identified, assessed and controlled. By definition, a risk is
Thanks for sharing this interesting article, Aamir. I agree with you that to be successful as a project manager, having just technical skills set such as project planning, scheduling, budgeting, logistics etc has been found to be insufficient. Some researchers have argued that the technical skill sets are actually minimum requirements for a project manager. In addition to the hard skills, which may be got from certifications, having soft skills can be the difference between succeeding or failing as a project manager.
I am glad you like it, you are absolutely right. Technical skills are crucial, without understanding technically how the PM is able to appropriately judge the critically of the issue and potential impact of a risk. The team respects the PM more if he is able to talk at the same level of technical mindset. For soft skills, potential PMs need to ensure that they are getting mentored with experienced trainers. In future, machines will become smart to take over more and more human tasks but it will never be able to take the experience and wisdom humans persist. Experience cannot be learnt but can be shared to improve the learning curve for better performance.
good blog on perfect project manager i hope you make more keep doing what your doing ??
Very apt article in today’s time whereby personal skills play a key role in delivering the best… well articulated!!!
It’s very helpful article, hope we will get more article like this.