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Project Manager
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Effective Project Management
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Project managers provide crucial planning, clarification, communication, and orchestration
between all of the stakeholders of a project to accomplish the project's goals.
A project manager should not be “doing the work,” but rather, should be organizing,
facilitating, recording, and following up on the delegated assignments. Project
management differs from product management in the sense that project managers are
responsible for the schedule and project completion, whereas product managers are
responsible for the content, relevance, and utility value of the project deliverables.
Typically, project management structures vary depending on the organization size.
Small development shops may have a single project manager, responsible for the project
and product management duties. Larger shops typically split out the project and
product management duties into separate roles. Large organizations may have a centralized
Project Management Office (PMO) centralizing standards, processes, templates, and
lessons learned.
Effective project managers should be familiar with the following concepts:
- The
Project Management Institute
- The ten knowledge areas of project management
- How software development projects differ from traditional projects
- How the Project Management Lifecycle differs from and interacts with the Software
Development Lifecycle
- Project documentation and documentation audiences (Project Charter, Project Plan,
Work Breakdown Structure, Schedule Plan, Budget Plan)
- Industry research on what factors primarily impact the success or failure of a software
development project
- How to identify stakeholders
- How to elicit, analyze, specify, and validate requirements
- Risk Identification, prioritization, mitigation and management
- How to create a Business Case
- The top ten most common software project life-cycles
- The law of triple constraints
- How to effectively manage scope creep
- How to document daily project progress
- How to develop a release plan
- How to establish and operate an IT Governance Committee
- How Marketing and Development should work together successfully
- Business/Strategy alignment
- Six ways to evaluate the business value of a software project
Red Rock Research offers software development best practice seminars that cover
this material.
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