A project manager should back off from the technical side of a project. Leave that for the people in those positions.

Don’t interfere in the process (methodology) that people use to deliver work.

You should manage the outputs or outcomes of the work, and what order they are done in, not how it is done.

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Filed under: Human Resources • Planning

Join PMI (Project Management Institute) and use the PMI Compendium of Project Management Practices

This is a good guide for new project managers or PM’s in an organisation without a complete project management framework. It will help with the steps associated with the process of managing a project. Including Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Closing the project.

It includes sample forms for the main steps needed. E.g.

• Project Charter
• Project Planning checklist
• Scope statement
• Scope Management Plan
• Work Breakdown structure
• Resource Pool
• And lots of other planning templates

In fact, if your organisation doesn’t have a formal step by step process for managing a project, this would be a good guide for working through the project.

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Filed under: Documentation • Planning