Project Management is fun in Share!!

Relax and enjoy the journey! Project management is fun in Share

•Get clear about your role and your responsibility.

•Make an assessment of whether the framework is realistic, both in time and budget, prior to accepting the project.

•Find out as much as possible at the first meeting with the client or project promoter. Do you understand the purpose? What’s the status of the project inside the organization?

•Ensure that project documentation is well-founded, and that it has management support and sufficient resources.

•Gain knowledge of the subject and the client. It is necessary because you, as a project manager, have responsibility for the results and conclusions of the group.

•Do not enter the project without proper planning.

•Make a rough schedule together with the project team. This will get them involved and accept the time you planned. It’s also a more efficient way of working.

•Do a risk analysis before the project starts. What can go wrong? Which backup can you have?

•Make a project plan. A detailed requirements specification of the project, with the purpose, background, objectives and targets, milestones, constraints, resources and timetable. Include project organization, information, support and follow-up.

•Ensure targets are completed before you start working, and that they are thorough and clearly formulated.

•The goals should be consistent. See therefore through each milestone both separately and as a part of the cycle. See the total picture!

•Break down the project overall goals into specific targets that can be coordinated and monitored.

•Describe the objectives of the project, so everyone is clear on where you are going.

•What is a priority for the project to achieve its goal? Is high quality the most important aspect or that it should be quick and not cost a lot? Determine expectations for quality, time and cost.

•Do not be impatient in the beginning; the foundation must be completed before you get going.

•Know your own strengths and weaknesses, your own needs and motivations.

•Limit the project team’s size so that it does not become too cumbersome.

•Get the expertise you need. Find out what knowledge and what experience the project needs to go in goal.

•Make sure that you don’t select the most pleasant people.. those who are most like you. Search instead for people who complement each other.

•Remind your people that everyone need to share his/her knowledge and experience.