If I was a Project Manager, what three qualities would I want? First and foremost, I would want to have the fortitude to accept my failures and the strength to drive forward despite of the failures. What made someone like Colonel Sanders (Kentucky Fried Chicken) successful? President Abraham Lincoln? Walt Disney? Vera Wang? All of these people were very successful people, but they also had many failures. So why were they successful? The answer is that they were not weak and crumbled at the first sign of failure. They were focused on their goal and they pushed forward to their success. That is the type of Project Manager I would like to be.
The second quality would be to communicate effectively. Have you ever had one of those bosses that you were always trying to figure out what he/she wants you to do? I have, and it came from lack of communication. As a Project Manager, I need to speak effectively so that there is absolutely no misunderstanding on what needs to be done.
Finally, I would want to have great people skills. A Project Manager needs to be able to listen actively to what others are saying, help develop new approaches for solving problems, and then persuade others to work toward achieving project goals (Schwalbe, K., 2013, p23). As a Project Manager, I would be working with people of different cultures. Understanding people will increase the chances of the project succeeding.
Any of the three characteristics above, either by themselves or in combination with each other, can also lead to project failure. So how do you become a great communicator, a great people person, and thick skinned? You work on it. Take a college course on communications or on people skills. Talk to your current employees and friends to get feedback from them on how you can improve. Then you devise a plan to start implementing their advice into your everyday life.
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The three keys to Project Success seem to have the three factors that all successful projects have in common. Each of these factors is key to any project’s success. Each project can be viewed as a tripod. The three legs must be in place for the tripod to stand sturdily. In a systems project, these legs are critical success factors consisting of the following:
Top management support
A sound methodology
Solid technical leadership by someone who has successfully completed a similar project.
Additional characteristic in IT Project Management are, cost, quality, speed and risk. However it is not possible to have the best of all four factors. Specifically, you cannot have a system built inexpensively, of high quality, built quickly and with little or no risk. Most discussion of these factors only include the first three. It is possible to build a high-quality system quickly, at a relatively low cost by cutting corner and doing little or no testing.
Base on a research carried out by the Coverdale Organization (Cushing, 2002), the respondents identified estimation mistakes, unclear project goals and objectives, and project objectives changing during the project as key factors in project failures. The following list the primary causes for the failure of complex IT projects: Poor planning, Unclear goal and objectives, objectives changing during the project, unrealistic time or resource estimates, lack of executive support or user involvement, failure to communicate and act as a team and inappropriate skills involved with the project. Sometimes IT manager are not given the opportunity to plan because of time pressure from senior management. (New Zealand Management, 2003). In such cases, people see planning as a waste of time because they believe that time is better spent doing something rather than planning (Fichter, 2003).
Therefore Project Managers must possess the skills and knowledge to successfully complete any project. Understanding, the human resource or personnel needed to conduct any project is critical, along having an overview of the scope for a certain project, and the deliverables to the stakeholder once the project is complete are but a few of the qualities a Project Manager must possess.
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A project manager must possess some very important qualities in order to be successful in his or her career. These qualities will insure that any project can be completed using the right steps and progress along the way. Everyone is different so no everyone will have the same strong qualities as any other. As long as overall everyone can have the right mind of thought, the projects can be done correctly.
The three top qualities I feel that I possess are: Good Communication, Competence, and Cool Under Pressure. First of all is good communication. Every project manager must possess good communication skills in order for everyone to be on the same sheet of music. There must be frequent meetings as the project begins to move forward so that everyone can stay on the right track. Any updates must be communicated throughout the team so that everyone is tracking any changes along the way.
Competence is also a very important quality to have as a project manager. Any manager in any industry or organization must possess some competence in order to be successful. A project manager must have the same competence. They must be able have a grasp understanding of the task at hand and be prepared for any unforseen changes along the way.A project manager must be able to make precise decisions when the time comes without losing the trust of this or her team.
The final quality I feel I possess is staying cool under pressure. As a supervisor in the military, I have been put in certain situations that were very stressful and made me think at a moments notice to lead a group of personnel out of harms way. Every situation is different for a manager or a leader, but it is important not not stress out when the moment comes and think and lead because you may be in charge of people lives and every decision can make a difference on someone's life. This quality can be inputted into managing projects and other tasks as well.
These same qualities can make any project manager fail if they don't possess any of them or manage them the wrong way. some bad qualities may be: poor communication skills, don't like working with people, no organizational skills
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