Principles for Successful Project Management

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    Managing your own project, in its essence, is a very exciting activity in which you can show your best qualities and gain huge experience in various fields and aspects in the shortest possible time, but at the same time it is a huge responsibility both for yourself and the team, with which you are working on an idea.

    And responsibility requires certain knowledge and principles. In this topic, I will try to bring my own municipalities and my vision of successful project management to the Khabrovites.

    1. Live an inspiring goal

    When you live for the sake of a specific goal, then all active actions, one way or another, contribute to its achievement. It’s nice to know what you are doing, why, for whom and for what. A bold, unattainable goal awakens strength and motivation. The desire to achieve your goal is always at a high level and this, of course, successfully affects your work.

    It is also important to find out (and help someone understand) the life goals of the participants in your project, this will help not only better understand each other, but also significantly increase the motivation and working capacity of your team, constantly reminding you of what they work for.

    2. Be “in line with the flow”

    You should not draw up a project development plan in advance to the smallest detail. Life, as a rule, makes its own adjustments to the development strategy, and if you look closely, these adjustments are always directed for the better. Do not be afraid to change plans, but do it consciously.

    In the course of the development of my project, I was convinced of this principle more than once and decided to open myself to many requests and suggestions. Looking back far now, I understand that absolutely all adjustments were reasonable and even inalienable.

    3. Know how to listen to the opinions of others consciously and objectively

    During the development of your project, you will hear a lot of different points of view, collect a variety of reviews and criticism. It is important to be able to see in this mass of truly constructive reviews that will make your project even better and more successful in some aspects. Do not give in to emotions in this matter, especially if your project is a pronounced innovation.

    Remember the fact that any innovation inevitably goes through the stage of rejection, criticism and ridicule. Believe yourself and yourself in the first place, and then analyze reviews and criticism.

    4. Sometimes switch to abstract thinking

    As the project develops, you should sometimes turn on abstract thinking and look at all aspects of the project under it. This will allow you to draw up a further strategy for the development of the project a few steps forward, and more accurately and most effectively.

    To switch to such thinking, once a week completely “get out of business”, get out of the city or in any quiet place to watch yourself and your project from the outside. New ideas will come by themselves.

    5. Let the other participants “steer” the project a little

    You should not put yourself and your ideas above all the others combined. In practice, it turns out that someone can offer a more rational and even, I would say, ingenious solution to a problem. And you, as a rule, could not have expected this from the person who proposed it. This happens because you are completely involved in the process and sometimes you can’t look at some aspect of the project development from the side.

    At the meeting, try to arrange everything so that everyone can fully express their point of view. Talk also 1 on 1 with each of the team, maybe a person will tell you that he was afraid to speak out publicly for fear that his idea would not be accepted.

    In conclusion, I want to add that the main principle, in my opinion, is the active development of oneself as a person and as a leader, as well as an unconditional belief in what you are working on. If you look closely, then for any successful project, you will first of all see a bright Person.

    Outstanding achievements to you!

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