BELTEI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Lectuers name : Cheon Reaksmy

Written by : soeun sokny

Academic year 2017.2018

Project management seems so straightforward. You set a

deadline. You set a budget. You select the right people. The
project gets done.
 In reality, project management is rarely straightforward.
The wrong people are assigned to the project. People don't
know what is expected of them or get conflicting information.
The scope changes. Deadlines aren't met. Put more succinctly:
Stuff happens.

There is not a child alive who dreams of being a project

manager. Maybe a firefighter, a rock star or an astronaut, but
not a project manager? Nope. Theres something inherently
dull about the words project and manager, the notions
they generate make the flames of even the brightest
imagination flicker and fade. And it follows that in the
professional world saying you are a project manager wont get
you much respect either. To many being a PM means you fit
this unfortunate stereotype: you were not good enough in
your field to be an engineer or a programmer, and through
politics and self-inflation, you find ways to take credit for the
hard work done by others.

The core problem is perspective. Our culture does not

think of movie directors, executive chefs, astronauts, brain
surgeons, or rock stars as project managers, despite the fact
that much of what these cool, high profile occupations do is
manage projects. Everything is a project. The difference is
these individuals would never describe themselves primarily
as project managers. Theyd describe themselves as directors,
architects or rock stars first, and as a projects manager or
team leaders second. They are committed first to the output,
not the process. And the perspective many PMs have is the
opposite: they are committed first to the process, and their
status in the process, not the output.
any of a thousand great things made possible only by
someones effective management of the project, people think
of pocket protectors, overdesigned charts, epic status reports,
and people who spend too much time in rooms filled
exclusively with other project managers. If you are not going
out of your way to separate yourself from the stereotype, odds
are good that when you say Im a project manager the
person you are talking to puts you into a Dilbert cartoon in
their mind, and you are the punchline.

People with job titles like Program Manager, Product

Manager, Information Architect or Quality Assurance
manager have similar problems. These titles all makes it hard
to relate to what it really is that the person gets paid to make
happen: a sure sign of title inflation, confusion via over-
specialization, or abstraction from the real work. I suspect all
of these folks have similar problems with getting respect from
people when they introduce themselves with their literal job
title (process), instead of what it is they help make (output).

The news isnt all bad. This lack of respect creates a huge
opportunity for people with open minds: their expectations of
you are low. If you take the time to find out what it is that the
people on the project need from you, or value from you, and
make that as large a part of your job as possible, youll get
more respect than you expect. And you may find that people
start referring to you as a different kind of PM one who has
changed their opinion of what PMs can do for a team and
youll earn not only their respect, but their trust and best work
too.

In this article I want to show you project management

best practices implemented at our company, that help us to
maintain a proper workflow and keep our employees
motivated.

BE YOUR TEAMS BIGGEST FAN

You may not be a peppy cheerleader by nature, but every

project needs a leader who owns and supports the process. A
good project manager will enforce process and keep everyone
on the team in-sync. Juggling timelines, deadlines, and
deliverables is key, but a project manager who also supports
the process, the team, and the client, brings true value to a
project.
Spontaneity
One of the easiest ways to make your employees more
productive is to change the environment they are working in.
You can do things like rearranging office furniture, but I
prefer changing up the environment by being spontaneous.
Dangle a carrot
The best way Im able to motivate my employees to work
hard, while keeping them happy, is to dangle a carrot in front
of them. You will have to figure out what carrot appeals to
what employees. If you cant figure out what appeals to them,
you may want to start with dangling money as most people
are looking to move up in their careers and make more
money.