How to play project management games
Author: BUILDER.COMWednesday, May 21 2003 11:15 AM
Many project managers feel that they are more like a game instead of work. Some project managers play games to win it, others are just waiting for the next round of challenge, and there is nothing for how to play a little. Many project managers are intensive in playing this type of project management, and thus can achieve great achievements. And others don't know what they are doing, they can't achieve something because they obviously do not understand the rules of the game. Once you start playing this "Project Management Game", you will soon realize that there is always enough funds, personnel and time. So you must mobilize your interpersonal relationship skills to get what you need, and drive the project. Here, there are two basic aspects related to people in project management:
Personnel is the key to the success of the project. Project problems can only be solved by people. So, if people are the core of any project, let us see how many project managers play this person's game. For project managers, get the final success is everything. They can't bear failure, because the executive personnel always only look at two major issues:
Who brought benefits - that is, timely completion, not budget, let customers satisfied, and so on. Who causing losses - that is, there is no important task, so that the team has conflict, more than the budget, causing the customer's dissatisfaction and so on. Therefore, the company is striving for project managers who have the ability to complete the task. The disadvantages of political games are that it includes I call "fraudulent" behavior: ambition, trick, secret negotiations, political activities, and political activities. Let us expose the absurd apperscriptation in some reality. Only the real project manager will think of working hard, mastering Microsoft Project, excellent project report allows you to be a better project manager. This lack of visionary approach may be helpful to you on small items, but it is definitely not a method of using the use of large projects. The competent staff requested a full range of surveillance of budget, resources, time and other real-time. So how do you play this game? You need to do this:
Extremely understand politics. Provide timely communication. Establish a good relationship. Ability to lead the team. If you want to win, we must improve the negotiation skills. Doing the type of player's type of political and manipulation acts. I am fortunate to observe how the project managers play this project management in several years. Next time you enter a project team, a PMO meeting, or when you meet with the same project managers, pay attention to those who have played games at close to the game. Figure A
Figure A illustrates various types of people you may encounter in a typical project organization. There is a method that can be used to draw your "type" map is now popular MYERS-Briggs people type indication test. The purpose of this is to obtain a simple impression of character character, and such features will affect what other people in your team. Once the character type is determined, it will help you understand how to best affect and motivate other project managers. One of the most important reasons for using techniques to win new project managers can not achieve success may be that the key to success is to simply ignore political factors. Correctly understanding the existence of politics is crucial, and learning how to successfully control political factors. You can take the steps below:
