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SUMMARY:

  • An entrepreneurial PM identifies from the beginning that progressive elaboration will be an undeniable part of project development and is sure to introduce that concept and drill that concept in to the project team and stakeholders from the very beginning of the process..
  • The initial ownership of the project lies within the realm of the direct stakeholders and influencers with power, which can include everyone from stakeholders superiors to folk working on the line with the new technology..
  • Each of these elements must be actively solicited and have time set aside by the project manager within the work breakdown structure to insure that their needs are being adequately met, and that the project manager is experienced enough in people management to negotiate changes in project development based on his assessment of those needs and the communication of these needs by the expanded list of stakeholders, understanding that everything identified as a need cannot make the final project cut, but may need to be renegotiated with the expanded team
  • My ability to understand that I am a project manager and not a technical resource related to technical planning is a key skill. We have subject matter experts to serve in that capacity and we should use them..
  • Once you have identified that, it is a great idea to build solid working relationships with key technical personnel and key business analysts who will identify the exact plan of what needs to be done.
  • You also must obtain solid working relationships with stakeholders to insure that you are consistently hitting the organizational self interest related to project development.
  • A project manager manages timelines and relationships well and understand the balance between technical demands and human fallacies and needs

EXPERTISE AREA:

Business Case Analysis

Develop a Project Charter

Develop a Project management plan

Identify Stakeholders

Develop a stakeholders register

Develop a risk management plan

Develop a communications plan

Develop a work breakdown structure

Assign time elements

Assign budget elements

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE;

Confidential

Project Manager

Responsibilities:

  • The project manager had to track all of these needs, make schedule adjustments and negotiate these adjustments with different strategic partners due to the changes required by the end customers
  • There will be times when you have several people wanting different things and consider their need a high priority. Tell me about a time when you juggled multiple high priority requests. 
  • You treat people with integrity and do your best to honor their requests, but you also hold very frank conversations around organizational and project related realities. The ultimate goal is to bring the project in on time, on budget and at an agreed upon level of quality.
  • The speed needs of a resource must be explained within the framework of these top three priorities and often times, re - explained to insure that the project reaches project objectives
  • Often issues arise in the implementation of a project.
  • Share your process to avoid issues from occurring and about a time when you faced a critical problem in a project 
  • The best way to handle this issue is to stay in the self interest as a project manager and to keep the proect in that position. The ultimate project owner tends to be the major decision maker regarding the direction of that particular project.
  • Staying respectful of this relationship and leveraging the self interest of the project owner when it is needed, the primary stakeholder, is the best way to change rules, change showstoppers and insure that a project continues to move forward
  • I conducted all needs assessments, orchestrated 75 of the relationships needed to make it work, worked strategically focusing my efforts on having the state of Illinois and the federal government find consistency between other efforts that they had orchestrated and the state program in order to slash costs and I was always the MBA on the project, on a daily basis, I sought ways to eliminate waste and progressively elaborate the projects to operate financially lean.

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