Are you a project manager, or soon to be project manager, and you're looking for a breakdown
of project management basics?
Well, I definitely have it for you.
Project management as much as as science, as an art, and understanding the basics is
going to help you be successful, and if you want to be a project manager Ninja, stay tuned
to the end of this video, because I'm going to share with you how you can get your hands
on why projects fail.
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There are some basics to project management that you can simply not go without, and in
this video I'm going to share with you what those top five things are.
Understand project terms.
Okay.
If you're a seasoned professional, you know that there's tons of terms out there, but
if you're relatively new, it's going to be really important
that you understand these terms of project management.
There's things like scope creep, and goal plating and stakeholder and sponsor.
What does this all mean? Don't worry.
I have a really great video that you can check out that's going to give you all these types
of terminologies, but it's really important that you understand the talk of project management,
so definitely brush up on project terminology.
Know the five phases of project management.
Yes, there are phases to project management, and it is really important that you know them.
In fact, if you go to pmi.org where those of us who are PMPs where we go in order
to get all our information, and get our designation, it will give you detailed information, but
those things are like initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control and closing,
and every single stage has something very specific, templates associated with it,
etcetera. Things that you need to know. Now, don't worry.
I actually have a course that you can go to, in the link below, that actually gives you
all that detailed information, along with templates, so you are covered whether it's my course,
PMI, or even just go on the internet, but know those five phases.
It's all about planning. Yeah.
A project manager is about putting the plan in place.
Yes, you do it with your team, but you have to set the tone, the stage.
So you have to have your goals, your objectives, your scope statements.
And then with the team you can get that plan in place.
You also have to take a look at scheduling, all that fun stuff, that is going to help you
be successful in the project.
So plan, plan, plan, and if you haven't planned enough, plan again, and if you think you've
planned enough, don't worry, do some more planning because your whole life cycle of
a project is all about that planning, rearranging it, being agile enough to ensure that you
can get ultimately to your end goal successfully having all the right documents.
Okay, so another project management basic is just that, not only do you have to plan
everything, but you need the documents to support that.
So as I said earlier on with those stages, there's templates at every stages, nine times
out of 10 people create their own.
But it's really important that you have the right one.
So when you're in the initiation stage, you need to have that charter template.
You need to make sure you have that scope template.
Whenever you're planning and you're doing scheduling, you need to have some sort
of calendar format, Gant chart, etcetera.
So having the right documentation is going to set you up for success, not only because
for you as a project manager, but for your teammates.
They need to have everything at their fingertips.
Your team, are subject matter experts and it's your job to ensure that
they're successful, so that you can ensure that the project scope is met within the timeline,
and within budget.
Ask for help. Well, what do you mean Adriana?
I'm a project manager. I shouldn't be asking for help.
Yes, yes, you should be asking for help.
They're going to be things on the project that you may just not know, like business
cases, why things were done.
You may need additional budgets and approvals.
That all being said, you're going to need some generic help within your project from
your sponsors, from your stakeholders, from steering committee members, but not only that,
you may also want to consider having a mentor, cause you're going to have some challenges,
and within a project there may be some politics, and some people challenges, and it's really
nice to go to someone whom you can trust, who understands your culture, or at least has
experience with project management that can give you great insight.
And guess what, by the way, AKA Adrian and Gertler, you have a mentor in me, so please
some of your questions.
I'm here to help you project management rock, and I want you to be really successful by
understanding these basics.
Now that you're ready to master the basics of project management, grab my cheat sheet
right here on why projects fail.
It's really important you understand this because if you're learning the basics, these
are other things that are definitely going to pop up and if you get it, it's going to
help you be great at what you do.
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