The structure of this article.
1. How a project manager messes up a project.
1.The customer's needs must be fully met.
2.The quality of the project must be improved.
3.The plan must be strictly executed.
4.The fire had to be put out.
5.You can't waste time writing documents.
6.You have to form your own clique.
7.Communication must be multi-windowed.
8.Risks must be concealed.
9.Processes must be flexible.
10.Agile transformation is a must.
2. How team members mess up a project.
1.Really virtual teams.
2.Non-compliance with norms.
3.Disobedience to management.
4.Neglect project management.
5.I don't love to learn Xi.
6.There is no priority.
7.No spirit of collaboration.
8.Emotional intelligence is too low.
9.There is no vitality.
1. How a project manager messes up a project.
The essence of project management is three aspects, objective management, resource management, and process management, so the evaluation criteria for project success are also reflected in several aspects: the goal must meet expectations (note is expected), resources must be within the control range (not less the better), process management must be smooth, and at the same time, the relevant parties must be satisfied. Therefore, the success of the project is a more complex and difficult thing.
Eh, so smart project managers have a turn of their brains, it's not easy to do a good job, isn't it easy to get caught if you don't do it well?Successful projects are the same, and failed projects are different. The so-called soldier is a bear, and there will be a nest of bears, let's talk about it today, from the perspective of the project manager, there are several steps to mess up a project.
1.The customer's needs must be fully met.
What, you want to go live in three days?Okay, I'll communicate this to the team. What, you want to add 200 new features?Okay, I'll immediately organize a review meeting with my team members to decide on a plan. What?You want us to be on duty overnight?Okay, I bought a bed right away, and the rented house was also refunded, saving money and electricity, why not.
Voiceover: Customer needs need to be screened and screened by the project manager, and the project manager needs to have judgment and strategy.
2.The quality of the project must be improved.
There can be no bugs before the system goes online.,The page must be designed by a master of the original research level.,You can't just change the rounded corners.,You must guide it three times.。 Exclusive testing team, black box, white box, alpha beta desktop walk-through test, all family buckets are arranged, and we must strive for 100% excellence, otherwise we will not be able to go online. Do the project. Must be exquisite.
Voiceover: There are two principles of project quality management, focusing on relative quality, ignoring absolute quality, paying close attention to compliance, and treating "reasonableness" dialectically. Because nitpicking ignores the launch time and cost control, it really outweighs the loss. (See article: Quality Management for details).
3.The plan must be strictly executed.
The WBS decomposition of the project has been completed long ago, and the daily morning meeting, evening meeting, weekly meeting, and monthly meeting must be implemented in strict accordance with the plan. What, the demand is half a day late?That's not good, stay up late with you and work overtime. What, you're sick and have to be hospitalized?It's also okay to drip with your left hand and your right hand with a mouse on your right hand. Plans must be adhered to, and as long as the alarm clock is set, no one can afford to be lazy.
Voiceover: Plans should indeed be adhered to, but they should be made with plenty of time to float, take into account various scenarios and risks, and be flexible to adjust before a big deadline arrives. Plans can never be followed by "compliment", plans are always changing.
4.The fire had to be put out.
What is planned, does not exist. Serve customers well and serve projects well, I am the most beautiful PM!Everything is important and urgent, and you must adjust your status at all times, and get everything done efficiently. Look, I'm sending WeChat and at the same time I'm still holding ** meeting, is it the best efficiency pioneer of this year's project team?
Voiceover: The true meaning of time management is to distinguish the best value, high return, high interest, distinguish priorities, do a good job of prioritization, and spend the most efficient time on the most valuable things, so as to really get twice the result with half the effort. (See the article: The Truth of Time Management).
5.You can't waste time writing documents.
There is a lot of project work, we spend our energy on the blade, just talk about the demand, isn't everyone very clear?The documentation was verbose and boring, it took only a few hundred words to write in two hours, and we had several meetings to fix how many bugs we had in this time. Boost efficiency, starting with document-free office.
Voiceover: Project documentation is a valuable organizational process asset of the project, which occupies a crucial position in project management, and if the organizational process asset management is done well, the project management will be at least 80% successful.
6.You have to form your own clique.
If it's a brother, come and cut me, there must be rules to form a team, if you don't do it, I won't do it, when will the project be delivered?Key positions must use "their own people", and everyone can rest assured when they know the roots. This Lisa didn't even say hello to me today, and she is the only one who is difficult to do.
Voiceover: The project team culture needs to be healthy, positive, and give team members a sense of security, so as to fully stimulate everyone's subjective initiative and creativity. Encourage a positive and collaborative working atmosphere, advocate positive conflicts, and an organization with people's hearts is a team and has combat effectiveness.
7.Communication must be multi-windowed.
Project information is sensitive and fragile, and there must be a sense of confidentiality. Everyone has a strict level of data permission, and when necessary, they can only talk to each other, as if underground workers are handing over information. What he shouldn't know must not be let him know, let him know too much and have ideas. Don't ask what you shouldn't ask, you know everything.
Voiceover: Project communication management should indeed carry out authority design, but it should not be too complicated, let alone too confidential, and should enhance information openness and sharing, so that relevant parties can know the project situation and fully participate, so as to know how to cooperate with the completion of the project work.
8.Risks must be concealed.
The project has a risk on behalf of the project failure, poor management, and even affect the company's brand, we must not let the customer, the boss know that we have so many risks, we will report the good news but not the bad, the problem is quietly solved, and the credit is then loudspeaker.
Voiceover: Project risks require the participation of key stakeholders to identify, judge the impact of risks, assess probabilities, and then discuss countermeasures. When necessary, it needs to be reported layer by layer, and it is more cost-effective to borrow higher resources to solve the problem.
9.Processes must be flexible.
If you want to do a good job, you must adapt to the times and embrace change. Processes and mechanisms are the product of organizational rigidity, the sequelae of the capitalist factory of the last century, and we must embrace change and respond in real time, so as to improve the turnover rate of DAU, ICU and so on.
Voiceover: Processes and mechanisms are necessary to help establish cooperation between various elements of the project, and only when the process is clear and the mechanism is clear, can the team align the goals and cooperate efficiently.
10.Agile transformation is a must.
Waterfall development has long been outdated, not only slow but also very low, all companies are in agile transformation, not only to improve work efficiency, but also to show a wave of presence, isn't it fragrant?Hurry up and urge HR to recruit agile coaches, choose the pilot immediately, no matter how I implement it, I will go live tomorrow.
Voiceover: Agile transformation needs to be adapted to local conditions, not blindly following trends and trends, we must start from the actual situation of the company, fully assess the demand and resource stock, evaluate the necessity of transformation, and then customize a reliable plan, form a team, and build a mechanism that can support it, so that it is possible to take the real first step.
The above 10 articles, occupy more than 3 articles, there is a considerable probability of messing up the entire project, the project post threshold is in it, the pit is deep, and it is really not easy to do a good job.
2. How team members mess up a project.
Next, I want to talk about what team members' work Xi habits and thinking habits may cause the project to fail.
So, what are some of the SAO operations that project team members can mess up the project?Let's take a plate together:
1.Really virtual teams.
Although many companies have the concept of the project and the position of the project manager, they do not really implement the project and adjust the corresponding organizational structure, but only regard the "project" as a temporary solution to deal with the phased work of goal concentration, resource progress and tight construction period. Imagine that the project manager is preparing to call the shots, and as a result, the striker is being transferred back to training, the infantry is completing their KPIs, and the cooks are optimizing their recipes, in this kind of real virtual organization, there is no doubt that the project manager is the one who is being virtualized, and it is not surprising that the project cannot be completed.
2.Non-compliance with norms.
With the refinement and specialization of project management, the success or failure of the project is no longer the only evaluation criterion, it is necessary not only to succeed, but also to standardize, not only to achieve the goal, but also to comply with the law. Compliance is to follow a series of project management norms, including methods and mechanisms to be followed in the project management process, as well as principles that must be followed for personnel behavior and ethics. Therefore, project team members should also demand themselves according to the standards of the project manager, and should not be too freewheeling, too flexible and ignore the reverence for the standards. Failure to comply with the norms not only leads to necessary risks, but also inevitably adds a lot of difficulty and cost to the project manager's organization and management.
3.Disobedience to management.
The project team members all perform their own duties and play an important role in the promotion of the project. For employees with high professional and technical thresholds, they will have their own set of "evaluation" standards, and will sincerely worship leaders with excellent technical and professional levels, but for "generalists" such as project managers, it is a bit unsightly. In the case of unconvincing and unappreciative, it is difficult to implement the decisions and arrangements of the project manager, and even cause a certain amount of infighting. "It is easy to break the mountain and the thief is difficult to break the heart", it does take a long time to break the prejudice and eliminate the estrangement.
4.Neglect project management.
As a relatively new framework and concept, it has indeed encountered many challenges in the process of implementation. If you specialize in one place, there will gradually be information blind spots in the barriers built by the profession, as if you can only see the beads one by one, but you can't see the threads that string all the beads. The real advantage of project management lies in the integration of resources, focus on goals, and achieve goals efficiently and accurately through overall coordination and cooperation. If you feel that project management is empty and useless, then no matter how good the project is, you will not be able to accumulate work experience that really thinks outside the box.
5.I don't love to learn Xi.
The project-based organization is a Xi-learning organization, because of the uniqueness of the project, on the one hand, it is the implementation of previous knowledge, methods, and frameworks, which need to be internalized rather than directly transferred, and on the other hand, it is facing new challenges and risks at any time, which requires everyone to see and dismantle the measures and adapt measures to local conditions. Therefore, the training of the project is often intensive and complex, and everyone works during the day and trains at night. Learning Xi is like exercising, and it does take hard work in the short term, but only when you are physically strong can you better resist all kinds of risks and pressures. The same is true for project learning Xi, only by constantly arming the brain and re-explicit knowledge from explicit to implicit can we improve everyone's ability to work, thereby increasing the probability of project success.
6.There is no priority.
Most project members wear multiple hats, working on specific projects or working on multiple projects in parallel as a role. In this case, it is equivalent to these tasks at the same time fighting for "you" energy and time (resources), so we must pay attention to the prioritization, in order to choose the most efficient resources in the most worthwhile work, so as to clarify how to exert efforts and how to allocate time. The premise of clear prioritization is to have a clear understanding of the goal, know what you are doing, and what you want to do in the future.
7.No spirit of collaboration.
Colleagues within an organization will have a relationship of coexistence with competition and cooperation. If cooperation is neglected and competition is amplified, it is easy for non-benign and friendly competition to occur. In a project team, since there is only 1 role in each role, it is more difficult to compete and how to cooperate for mutual benefit and win-win results. The altruistic thinking in the project is the key to maintaining team cohesion, and the same plan needs to be introduced from different perspectives to ensure that the plan is comprehensive and can quickly increase the ability to resist risks.
8.Emotional intelligence is too low.
Emotional intelligence is a more subjective indication, and the work is more about the non-linear ability to deal with people, rather than the linear ability to solve purely technical problems. Emotional intelligence is too broad, especially the content related to psychology is not in-depth here**, but it needs to focus on how to get along with yourself and how to get along with others. Many people in the Department of Social Fear and Technology don't like to deal with people, and find it complicated and difficult to deal with, but in fact, excessive isolation is also a state that cannot be integrated with the self and the world. Cutting-edge thinking, matter-of-fact, and diode thinking are all typical "low emotional intelligence", but it needs to be understood that this is not only a mental and psychological phenomenon, but also the corresponding state of mind will cause the body to produce corresponding hormones, which also explains why depression is not a problem that can be solved by simply "thinking about it". To change this status quo and become a charismatic professional, you need to continue to learn and Xi and break through the boundaries of self-thinking, practice in things, and continue to practice.
9.There is no vitality.
Going to work is like going to fen, and the thought of going to work every day is painful (as if talking about yourself?).It's also a bad work mentality, you need to adjust as much as possible, exercise more, eat fruits and vegetables (okay, I can't make it up). It's normal to not like going to work, after all, no one wants to be a ruthless screw and face the beatings of life every day. But outside of work, we have a lot of wonderful life experiences, and we should have a career that we strive for and can make ourselves shine.
The above are some of the project team's thoughts on how to mess up the project, some of the reasons are indeed objective reality, what we can do is to do our best, push ourselves and others, so as to turn losses into profits, so that the project should be the way it should be. over (*a sauce jar).