Are You A Good Project Manager?

By Author: Pradip Dwivedi
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You manage the project and think that you are a good project manager. Is it the case with you also? See, everyone can manage a project and can be treated as a project manager, but if the questions are coming for good governance by a project manager – how you will decide that someone is doing good project management? So, here are a few takeaways for you.

If there are some products that need to be delivered to the customer through executing a project; each and every project manager will plan smoothly and try to execute the project to deliver that product effectively. But the processes adopted by the project managers will differ from each other. There might be some commonalities but it will differ in many ways. And that is called differences in project governance. Here comes how smartly you are managing the projects. Some project managers can manage this project with four phases of the projects and some can manage in three or even two phases. You can’t say which one is superior until and unless you judge the project results with every verticals.

Someone can think what are the parameters for judging someone’s ...
... project management skill as superior or inferior? So, your results of the project, your decision making ability, your team management capability will prove how smartly you are managing the project or how smartly you can manage the projects? Let me explain you some features of good project management through which you can understand your position as a project manager – where you are and where you should be?

Better understanding of business case or business needs:

As a project manager you must understand why this project is going on in your organization. What could be the advantages for the entire organization if you could manage this project successfully? There are so many examples of project failure where business needs have been misread by the project manager.

If you are able to understand the real business needs or business case (why this project has been taken by your organization), and you are able to include those in your project planning; you are doing well in your project. Some companies and project managers also use project management guidelines set by various institutes like PMI for more details visit site.

Better people/team management:

As a project manager you are the focal point for the project. Everyone will look towards you for any status updating or any other administrative issues pertaining to the project. So, you can understand your position, you need to be a good person who can talk with other related people in your project.

You must be always open to discuss the issues (project related) with other people. You must be a good problem solver (Confronting). If there are some issues going on in the project, you must solve those with win-win result. That shows your aptness as a good project manager. In order to test your ability to steer the project in the right direction in variety of complex situations there are different PMI Certifications ranging from PMP to PgMP that tests you and makes you aware of global standards of project management.

Good leadership quality:

It is rightly said: A leader leads by the example. As a project manager you must lead your team from front. You must address the team effectively from each and every sphere. Cases are there where project manager always wants to work with the team members and try to produce some output, say, one or two units. That will work definitely, you might be able to understand the clear picture of the processes and you might be effectively can address the team if there is a matter of updating from the customer pertaining to the processes adopted in the project. This is leadership really. You need to perform in that way so that your team could rely on you completely.

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