Accents for a project manager

Released on = June 14, 2007, 6:14 am

Press Release Author = CS Odessa Corp. develops software for business, productivity
and visualization.

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = For successful project management nowadays a good software
is an advantage. Especially it\'s helpful at the initial phase of a project and for
good communication between projects, having common resource pool

Press Release Body = Any group of people, working together has much in common with
any alive organism, which obtains its own special phases and behavior. For a project
manager it’s necessary to know peculiarities to be ready to manage a project
in the best way.

According to Tuckman\'s Stages of Team Development there are 5 items to proceed:
forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning. Every stage is important of
course, but the initial phase is the most significant one.

An excellent team is the result of complex work and that is why it’s necessary
to make work with people more comfortable for a project manager.

The first step in creating a professional team is the understanding of what kind of
people are required for the project. Requests may concern both professional and
personal features of people. A manager is also to define the cost of resources.
Project team is gathered either from the very beginning and the staff works only in
this project; or a project team is selected out of employees, who participate in
many projects simultaneously. And it may well be, that at necessary moment the
certain employee is occupied with the task in another project. But in case with the
common resource pool for many projects, it’s easier to solve the question of
resources load and to escape dead-time situations. That is why the communication
between project leaders is very important.
It’s much easier nowadays to cope with any number of projects owing to
different kinds of project management software. For example, ConceptDraw Project
provides opportunities for easy project management as there are enough features to
plan and keep track of any number of projects simultaneously owing to multi project
workspace. With the help of ConceptDraw Project it\'s easy to manage resources shared
among different projects, as well as create linkages between them. Various projects
can be managed from a single workspace. Use of this kind of software lightens
communication between project managers as the complete picture of what is done by
whom and when is obvious and can be accessed with no efforts.

Getting back to initiation phase, we should say that at this period a project team
is concerned with orientation, it identifies the boundaries of both interpersonal
and task behaviors. Also relationship with a leader, other group members are
established. The beginning of any project makes people anxious. And the task of a
project manager is to unite the team and help its members to develop clear
relationships within the group. There must be a lot of communication and discussion
to form confidence, understanding, sincerity, tolerance, openness and readiness to
support each other and move forward.

The next stage is norming, while this period team members adjust their behavior to
each other as they agree to make the teamwork harmonious to enjoy working together.
Motivation becomes more effective at this stage.

In case the previous stages passed successfully, the stage of performing is the most
pleasant for a project manager, because the team is aware about all details and it
is aimed completely at the task. It doesn’t need precise control as everybody
is at place and knows what to do. And what is great, the team works as a single
organism, doing its best, supporting each other, it is aimed at result. And what is
great, the team is able to make decisions itself.

The final phase is Adjourning, when all tasks are almost completed. And this is a
good time to present new ideas and projects to keep the team from anxiety about
future work.

Obviously, all these phases are to be followed by a project manager for the project
to be successful. The experience and knowledge of nice decisions will provide the
desired result.


Web Site = http://www.conceptdraw.com/en/products/project/main.php?utm_source

Contact Details = CS Odessa, Ltd.
29 Frantsuzskiy Blvd.
Odessa, 65044
Ukraine
Tel.: +1 (408) 694-3213
Fax: +38(048)728-6661
e-mail: detochka@csodessa.com

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