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Project Management: How to Manage Complex Business Management Projects Without Getting Stressed
If you have ever designed a product or service; commissioned a website or app; outsourced work; recruited staff or any of the other dozens of things you need to do to run a business, then you’ve managed some form of business project.
If it went well that’s great. But if it failed, if you had problems, or if you’d like to improve your project management skills then this book is for you.
In the next few pages, I want to help you to avoid “herding cats”. I want to help you manage your projects so that they achieve success with minimal hassle and cost. I’m not going to go into the technicalities of project management in great depth or use technical terms more than I need to. But I am going to give you the essentials of project management that lie at the core of all successful projects. So, treat this as a primer that is designed to both help you avoid some of the pitfalls you might otherwise encounter and to point out some of the more in-depth sources of project management.
What is Project Management?
So, what is project management? And more importantly, why do you need to bother with it when you are busy running a business?
I promised I wouldn’t use technical language but bear with me on this definition. Some of the words might appear off-putting, but I promise you it isn’t as bad as it sounds, and it is important that we understand what we are talking about.
“Project management is the discipline of instigating, planning, executing, controlling, and completing the work of an individual (or team) to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria”.
OK, so if like me you aren’t naturally the most organised or disciplined person in the world then some of these words are frightening and you might want to run a mile. But before you do, think about this. If you want your project to work out OK, then you need to have a vision of what it will look like at the end. For example, if you want a website built you will know if you want it to sell products, provide information or whatever.
If you are going to use your website to sell products, then having some sort of shopping cart on it would be a good idea, wouldn’t it? And if you are going to sell products you had better have some pages with the products displayed and some great images, copy etc. You’ll also need to tell people how much the product is and how they can buy it!
So, having decided this sort of thing I have to tell you that you’ve started to run a project. In fact, you’ve reached stage two in the process. If you look at the definition above you’ll see that stage one is instigating the project, and that was when you decided to build a website, and stage two is planning. And by deciding what you need to include on your website you have started the planning process. It wasn’t so painful, was it?
If it went well that’s great. But if it failed, if you had problems, or if you’d like to improve your project management skills then this book is for you.
In the next few pages, I want to help you to avoid “herding cats”. I want to help you manage your projects so that they achieve success with minimal hassle and cost. I’m not going to go into the technicalities of project management in great depth or use technical terms more than I need to. But I am going to give you the essentials of project management that lie at the core of all successful projects. So, treat this as a primer that is designed to both help you avoid some of the pitfalls you might otherwise encounter and to point out some of the more in-depth sources of project management.
What is Project Management?
So, what is project management? And more importantly, why do you need to bother with it when you are busy running a business?
I promised I wouldn’t use technical language but bear with me on this definition. Some of the words might appear off-putting, but I promise you it isn’t as bad as it sounds, and it is important that we understand what we are talking about.
“Project management is the discipline of instigating, planning, executing, controlling, and completing the work of an individual (or team) to achieve specific goals and meet specific success criteria”.
OK, so if like me you aren’t naturally the most organised or disciplined person in the world then some of these words are frightening and you might want to run a mile. But before you do, think about this. If you want your project to work out OK, then you need to have a vision of what it will look like at the end. For example, if you want a website built you will know if you want it to sell products, provide information or whatever.
If you are going to use your website to sell products, then having some sort of shopping cart on it would be a good idea, wouldn’t it? And if you are going to sell products you had better have some pages with the products displayed and some great images, copy etc. You’ll also need to tell people how much the product is and how they can buy it!
So, having decided this sort of thing I have to tell you that you’ve started to run a project. In fact, you’ve reached stage two in the process. If you look at the definition above you’ll see that stage one is instigating the project, and that was when you decided to build a website, and stage two is planning. And by deciding what you need to include on your website you have started the planning process. It wasn’t so painful, was it?
26 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 3, 2018
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