Blair Pollard | What are the Best Practices of Project Management?

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What are the Best Practices of Project Management?
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Blair F Pollard
In IT industry there are many role and position
to accomplish various jobs. Project managers also
play a vital role in managing the IT services.
Some says project managers are people manager,
yes its correct they handle people however it is
a portion of their responsibilities. Being a
project manager, Blair F Pollard strongly admits
that project management has strong foundation
which leads to successful project management. Let
us discuss some best practices of a good project
management.
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Define the Scope and Objectives
Project management is a goal driven methodology.
Figure out the real objective of the project,
what exactly is supposed to achieve to get a
success of the project? Suppose your boss asks
you to organize a camp to educate people about
child labour to raise the profile of company in
local community. Planning and managing is the key
objective of project management. How this goal
will accomplish?  What is the scope of the
project? Will employees take their own vehicles
to reach camp destination or company transport
will manage it? Project manager decide the
activities which are in the scope or out of the
scope project.
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Define the Deliverables
At the end we all need results, project
management is somewhat like this, to achieve the
desired result what things you delivered at the
project completion. If your project is an
advertising for a new brand of car then one of
deliverables might be the graphics for a
newspaper advert. Once you have decided the
deliverables, next is to get it reviewed by
stakeholders.
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Project Planning
Here comes the phase where project manager decide
the resources, people and budget are required to
complete the project. Which phases will be
involved in completion of the project and which
products will be delivered in each phase?
Deliverables are already in place and estimate
time and effort required to complete each
activities need to be set. Create a project plan
which will captured realistic schedule to
complete the project.
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Communication
Communication is the key for a successful project
plan. Your project plan will not be successful if
it is not well communicated to your team. A good
project manager always share his/her plan with
the team so that everybody in the team should
know about their responsibilities, the project
work stream, their duties and what they are
accountable for?
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Risk Management
There is always a risk of staff lacking the
technical skills, hardware shortage etc. etc. The
main issue is to discover the main risks to a
project and work on them as soon as possible to
avoid the risk. If you cant evade the risk
completely at least alleviate the risk in order
to lessen the effect.
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Wrapping it up
According to Blair F Pollard, project management
is an art of people management, process
management and performance management.
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