Aman Vats PMP

This has been expereienced that absence of a good project manager resulted in delayed project delivery or many a times project failure. There is a good shartage of experienced and good project management professional. PMP certification is a good way out to know about the techniques and then polishing them up by implementing in your projects. A good project Manager must know following 9 important knowledge areas. 1. Project integration Management. 2. Project Scope management. 3. Project Time Management. 4. Project Cost Management. 5. Project Quality Management. 6. Human Resource Management. 7. Procurement Management. 8. Project Risk Management. 9. Project Communication Management. As per mu understnading the most important part here is Communication Management. A PM spend maximum of time in communicating. So communication must be very effective and must be clear and crisp. He should be able to send the clear message to targeted person. In next blog, I will cover e

Keeping Project failure rate in preview, the demand for a qualified and result oriented project managers are increasing drastically in market. Though PM technical knowledge is important but above and all, there are certain most important qualities a project manager must possess to be successful in his/her profession. What are those qualities? Look at some of these. 1. Lead From Front - The Project Manager must exhibit as a leader. He has to lead the team from the front. Please remember that Human resources are the real asset in the Organization. 2. Respect Stakeholders and Keep Them Updated Many a times it has been observed that PM is not in touch with stake holder consistently. Please note that You have to keep stakeholders always updated. This will create trust of stake holders in PM and also if something goes wrong, they will come for rescue. 3. Monitor Project Progress on daily basis PM must observe the project progress continuously. In no time, he should

Just imagine following situation. Two senior management persons talked about the project and its scope. Both agreed and then one ordered to start the project. The project manager was finalized by senior management after talking to CTO/Functional manager verbally. The designated project manager was called and the project scope was explained to him. The project manager was not having guts to say "NO" or ask some question to baffling senior manager. The project team was finalized by Project manager and CTO. The project started without proper documentation. And believe me the end results we as follows. 1. The project was much behind the schedule and cost overrun. 2. Finally the project was dumped. 3. The Project manager was blamed for the same and fired. 4. Company incurred losses. To avoid such situations, we must always obey the rule that "Respect Quality Process to derive the Quality in Product". But in above situation the first step of the

I would like to share one problem which was faced by me in one of my international project. The project was launched to design a application for one international client. I was designated as project manager of this project. The coordinator/ project facilitator at client side was very poor in English. We received first document by mail. We were trying to understand this deeply but unfortunately, the English written was not at all linking the clear requirements. But we were asked to start the project. As a project manager, I mentioned the Language barrier in my Risk register. But due to some business requirement, it was not shared with the client. The project started based on the RFP received from customer. The team started working, plans were base lined and we were following rapid spiral model of development. We used to develop something and send to client for verification. We were also getting the good response from their side. The project was proceeding in a normal manner and the

From today, I am resuming to update my blog. The blog will revolve around project management and I will try to share all my knowledge which I attained through my experience. Many projects fails in today's arena up to incompetency of project manager or non availability of efficient and competent project manager. The final word is that insufficient and uncontrolled project management came out a sole reason for half of failing projects. Since the India is growing very fast and many projects are in line and many projects will be coming in future. Without the proper Project Management it will be a wasteful efforts to think about the success of the projects. The future of the project management is really very challenging and excellent opportunities are on the cards. Let us get together and face this challenge and embrace the coming opportunities. From tomorrow, please look for my blogs in new pattern. Keep reading and happy learning................