How to be a good IT project manager?

1. Fully affirm the role and value of people in IT projects.

One of the biggest complexities of IT project management is personnel management. For all project members in IT projects, they are engaged in creative work. Although CMMI emphasizes the importance of process, some general practitioners still emphasize the importance of people to the project. No rules, no Fiona Fang. Processes and specifications are very important, but they should not deny the initiative and creativity of project members. At the same time, we should affirm the important value of project members to the success or failure of the project.

2. Select and recruit the right people

The first thing is to choose or recruit the right person, admit that there is a cost in recruitment, and also make full preparations for recruitment. The focus of personnel inspection is not only the knowledge and skills, but also the individual's personality, values, cooperation and communication skills, self-study ability and methods. Personal work habits are not formed overnight, and the formation of habits depends on the usual attitude towards work and life, which determines everything; Secondly, understanding and self-study ability, and then existing knowledge and skills.

3. Assign people appropriate jobs

Each project member has his own specialty and personality characteristics. We should give full consideration to the skills and personality characteristics of project members, assign them suitable jobs, and at the same time consider the work interests and hobbies of project members. Giving full play to the strengths of project members and letting everyone engage in their favorite work is a problem that project managers should consider when allocating work. Knowledge and skill evaluation, personality analysis, advantages and disadvantages of each project member are all contents that need to be analyzed and considered in advance.

4. Evaluation should truly reflect personal performance.

The more things you do, the more likely you are to make mistakes. Pre-research and creative work are often fruitless. Is it entirely based on the quality of the output? These problems are often encountered, so it is recommended to make a comprehensive evaluation according to the work results, that is, the difficulty, individual teamwork spirit and values. Only those who perform well in both aspects are the real backbone members of the project, and they should be reflected in their jobs and salaries in order to become outstanding employees of the project for a long time.

It is better to cultivate people than to manage them.

IT project managers should play the role of leadership and management according to personal experience in the early stage of the project, and more should play the role of coach in the process of project implementation. Only by cultivating project members can passive management be transformed into spontaneous active management. We think management is very difficult, and it is often mandatory, which is repugnant to every project member. Don't blame project members for their current mistakes, but help them analyze why they made such mistakes. Instead of helping project members solve current problems, you teach them how to solve similar problems in the future. Changing attitude will help each project member to form good work habits. I hope habits and learning methods are the key contents of training.

6. Always communicate with project members alone.

Project managers spend about 70-90% of their time on communication, which shows the importance of communication in project management. Communication reflects the importance that the project manager attaches to each project member. The project manager should communicate with the project members individually on a regular basis to understand the work and life situation, personal career planning and work ideas of the project members, and separately point out the areas that cannot be improved in the work of the project members. Many times, communication can't achieve results, often because many real ideas of project members are not expressed, so both parties should communicate openly and completely on an equal footing.

7. Conflict is inevitable

In the course of a project, various conflicts will inevitably occur within the project, between project members and external interfaces or stakeholders. PMBOK's point of view is that conflicts are often beneficial to projects. For conflicts that can be resolved by the project members themselves, the project manager should try not to step in and try not to let the conflicts escalate. The role of the project manager is to control the conflict within the controllable scope of the project and promote the reflection and learning of the project members after the conflict.