IT Project Management
Our clients’ projects are diverse, and we provide services ranging from strategic projects for large corporations to smaller one-time projects or freelance contracts.
We have extensive experience providing full-service project management for all types of industries.
Our largest practice areas are:
- Finance
- Healthcare
- Travel
- Professional Services
- Pharmaceuticals
- Construction
- Education
- Man Power
- Telecoms
A strong project manager can significantly improve the efficiency and outcomes of your projects while also unlocking the team members’ performance potential.
This brief post will assist you in determining whether it is time to hire a new project manager and also ensure that you understand what a project manager does.
When is a Project Manager needed?
Although this function is critical for many teams and businesses, it is not required for every organisation or project. Small teams and organisations, for example, with a clearly defined stream of straightforward work may not see the value in hiring a dedicated project manager.
What does a Project Manager do?
In most organisations, project managers’ daily responsibilities vary. Depending on how the project manager’s projects are progressing, each day requires a different mix of duties.
- Project planning: It entails determining the scope of the project, defining success, determining deliverables and due dates, developing a schedule and a budget, and obtaining stakeholder approval.
- Project resourcing: It entails allocating resources to the project, acquiring funding, and obtaining scheduling approval.
- Keeping track of the schedule: Reassessing workloads, checking in on stoppages and bottlenecks, keeping the peace, and avoiding disaster.
- Motivating project teams: Keeping team members happy and focused; resolving interpersonal conflicts.
- Project delivery and reporting It includes project handover to the client or the next business unit, as well as post-project reporting.
Common project management approaches
There are different project management styles implemented by different project managers. Although it is common for project managers to adapt to the needs of a project or organisation, experienced project managers usually have preferred the general framework styles.
The general framework of most project management styles, however, will fall into one of three common categories:
- Agile methodology:
This quick, collaborative, and frequently iterative project management approach works well with change. When you have short segments (or phases) of work and plan to test and adapt workflows multiple times within a project, the agile methodology works best. - Scrum methodology:
It divides all project work into two-week sprints, with planning at the beginning and review at the end. This method works best for shorter documents. - Kanban methodology:
A subtype of agile methodology that originated in manufacturing, Kanban tracks task progress through columns on a Kanban board. It populates new tasks from a predefined backlog using a continuous fill method (pull system). It is suitable for simpler workflows that use a pull framework, but not for more complex ones or those that use a push system.