How can an IT Project Manager implement Successful IT Project

All of the above ideas are right, but if you failed to create the effective team of people who ready to work, think and collaborate in the process of solving the problems, and let them work together by leading them and providing the moderated level of free thinking (I mean watching the process goes in the right direction to the established goal), you will never reach what you want to reach. Finally, the strategy and ideas are good, but they will not be realized until there are people around you who will be ready to work on this strategy and solve problems. No one wins alone.

To sumup the ideas put forth, we need to concentrate on communication(Internal stakeholder & consistent communication with External stakeholder), proper governance on Change mgmt and early forecast & resolution of risk and control on Issues.

Well he should be able to plan control cycles to check budget and time frame which was agreed.Keep it control cycle simple but ensure all changes are captured and reported to management.

From beginning to end he have to document the control cycle with the management and customer

IT PM tend to get too much involved into technical details and solution finding on very detailled level....That is not his job. In most cases a PM who gets involved too much in to technical details, he loses overview on the other important parts of the project (timeframe, resources, training, testing.....)

-Clarity on Requirements/objectives to achieve of the project and performing team is in sync with what needs be achieved to meet business needs of the project.

-By building highly productive and cohesive teams. Keep them focused and motivated

- Proactive monitoring and control over various metrics(time,cost,quality,scope) of the project on a regular basis.

- Timely corrective measures to pull the project back on track.

- Creating adequate communication channels amongst various stakeholder  to keep the momentum going to achieve project goals.

Hi All

Most of us have covered all the points very well. Based on my experience of over a decade in project management, I follow a simple framework.

    Apart from Team management, client management and stakeholder expectations, following are few basics needs to be in place. And we need to define the right metrics and events for alert and notification, so we are going on a correct track. Planning and execution needs to go hand in hand for a good project manager. He must be in proactive mode and not reactive mode.

Step #1: Conduct Feasibility Analysis

Step #2: Analyze and Determine Requirements

Step #3: Consider Industry Best Practices

Step #4: Design

Step #5: Measuring and Tracking Progress

Step #6: Development

Step #7: Addressing Automation

Step #8: Testing

Step #9: Gradual Implementation Practices

Regards

Mihir Kumar Jhaveri, PMP, CSCM

Senior Manager

Test each and every unit for the defects and correct it.

These are processes defined and refined over a long period of time by respected and experienced professionals. There is no need to re-invent the wheel. Once we start living these processes in our daily life, we should be able to deliver each and every project successfully.

Implementing project successfull is a multi step process (from Analysing to delivery and supporting in prod). The key lies to make sure that all the steps are well documented and followed. Creating a project plan, identifying the right resources, time frame for each phase of project and monitering the project paln at every stage and step. Time to time, make sure that you visit your risk associated with each stage of the project.

Communication should be on top of every thing. Over communication is always better than under communication.

There is no end of this. In nut shell the things you should keep in mind is that the project overall depends on following

Communication

Scope analysis (Make sure to get it documented and sign off from busniess)

Right resource (Major challenge)

Monitor the progress at each phase/stage/step

test plan and perform testing (Give enough time for testing)

Risk analysis

Back up (plan and resource)

A IT project is ultimately considered successful if it is delivered & performs at least to the clients expectations if not more.

- Excellent Planning for optimal time & resources utilization.

- Enough risk management even from consultation/study phase to reduce the post release changes and reduces time to market.

- for Best quality - meticulous testing.

The Key would be AVOID SURPRISES. I personally prefer to spend more time in UAT, that’s when users get to see the whole concept in action and most of the time come up with valuable enhancements/changes that are beneficial to the acceptance / success of the project.

May not be the greatest but just thoughts going loud.

End of the day every one should get what they want.. Project manager..  job well done..!!!

Nice plan, brilliant dedicated team, enthusiastic disciplined client are all part of good recipe for successful project. Still it will throw up surprises and bottleneck on deliverables will appear from no where. That’s the magic and reality. So like a matured sailor, project manager need to steer this ship by taking adequate steps of risk management proactively to address surprises and overcome bottlenecks and thereby manage to reach the final mark successfully.

See, if you want to go for any project, one must behave like a down to earth person  by mind...........only. go, get and Learning. Lean to wish a problem two solutions always.

wishes,

Rajay Tyagi

Because of need for agility of organization, PM now does not have the luxury of being in seclusion and work on a project for few months at a given time. The IT PM needs to understand the customer’s business strategy and challenge any project scope that is not in alignment with that strategy. IT PM should be in tune with changing marketing/business strategy to make sure that the project is still relevant to the customers. The project management processes need to be agile to enable fast changing customer priorities. The PM needs the influencing and negotiation skills for forced prioritization to solve the major business problems in a short development cycle.

Plan, Relationship, Execution, Discipline, Initiative, Communication, Testing - Involve, Train

In most cases an IT PM is seen from GM as top down executor, but he has no equal power to decide in case a political discussion is not ending.

We can implement the any IT project succesfully when we consider People,Process and Technology. When it people it a Project team, Functional team,Mgmt team, customers , Process is that Coomunicaitons,Risk Mangemnt, Tracking the timelines and activities, testing . to implement project succesfull we need to depend on technology that has to be availble to the team always......... by using this fundamentals you can successfully  go thorugh all the phases of the project ......IPECC

Hi All

Most of us have covered all the points very well. Based on my experience of over a decade in project management, I follow a simple framework.

    Apart from Team management, client management and stakeholder expectations, following are few basics needs to be in place. And we need to define the right metrics and events for alert and notification, so we are going on a correct track. Planning and execution needs to go hand in hand for a good project manager. He must be in proactive mode and not reactive mode.

Step #1: Conduct Feasibility Analysis

Step #2: Analyze and Determine Requirements

Step #3: Consider Industry Best Practices

Step #4: Design

Step #5: Measuring and Tracking Progress

Step #6: Development

Step #7: Addressing Automation

Step #8: Testing

Step #9: Gradual Implementation Practices

Regards

Mihir Kumar Jhaveri, PMP, CSCM

Senior Manager

1. Usually IT projects are underesimated right from the proposal stage :-)

2. This we can beat by ensuring a good work breakdown from requirements followed by a realistic effort estimation and then a realistic schedule

3. Once the project begins, it very important to have a very stringent monitoring and control methodology

4. Weekly project status meetings should be both internal (among the project team members) and external (with team and customer also). Reports need to be generated and distributed, schedule has to be updated to reflect current status. Never skip a status meeting, entire team should speak, share, healthy conflicts need to happen and need to be resolved by the PM.

Probably healthy monitoringand control methods are most important as this actually is the execution phase and most work is happening here. This ensures a PM is aware of and in control of the actual ground situation

5. Having a tab on the team morale is another important factor, regular team meeting sensitize the PM.

<p>To sumup the ideas put forth, we need to concentrate on communication(Internal stakeholder &amp; consistent communication with External stakeholder), proper governance on Change mgmt and early forecast &amp; resolution of risk and control on Issues.</p>

The key to have sucess for any large IT Project are the following

The Project Planing : Make sure that project activites are captured in the project plan to the last granular level.

Interdenpendecy Management :Interdepencies have to be managed effectively

Change Management : Most of the IT project suceed or fail because of this. Controlled changed management always helps

Roles and Responsibilities : Teams working in the project should aware of clear roles and responsibilities. RCSI can used as the tool to define R&Rs

Issues and Risks Management : Issues and Risks if managed properly and conveyed to top managed on time helps in the success of the project

Project Manager should hire a good business analyst.

Business Analyst should be able to have an access to the actual end user of the intended system so that he is able to capture important requirement, details.

Nice plan, brilliant dedicated team, enthusiastic disciplined client are all part of good recipe for successful project. Still it will throw up surprises and bottleneck on deliverables will appear from no where. That’s the magic and reality. So like a matured sailor, project manager need to steer this ship by taking adequate steps of risk management proactively to address surprises and overcome bottlenecks and thereby manage to reach the final mark successfully.

Its all about delivering a Tangible End product as required in proper time (avoiding freebies) with a team that communicates properly among itself and external stakeholders