Project Management Newbies
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I am an IT Project Manager with several successful projects in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Cloud Computing under my belt. I hope to use this platform share to as much knowledge as I can about my career path and at the same time inspire up and coming IT project managers. Looking forward to this journey of learning and sharing.
Project Management Newbies
3y ago
At a basic level, as an IT project manager, you will be required to manage successfully scope, schedule, financials, stakeholder/ team communications, and resources for your projects.
I have categorized into 5 distinct skill areas that an IT project can focus on to be successful as an IT project manager. They are:
Domain technology knowledge: An IT project manager for the most part is expected to take on a wide range of responsibilities during a project or at least be knowledgeable about them. I can say from my experience that to be successful at managing IT projects, a project manager ..read more
Project Management Newbies
3y ago
In an earlier write-up on this website, I discussed the different components of an IT project. To help you better understand how they all come together, this week I will be discussing a fictional project that has most of these components.
Web Development
Database Management
Software Development & Implementation (Web or Mobile)
Data Mining
Cloud Computing
Network Configuration
Hardware Installation
Network and Computer Security
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Business case: So let’s assume Events Limited is a fictional event planning company – one of the largest ev ..read more
Project Management Newbies
3y ago
To successfully deliver an IT project, several IT roles need to be filled to carry out different functions on the project. Being knowledgeable about these roles would help you as an IT project manager identify any skills gap in your team on a given project.
The challenge here is that there are so many blurry lines and mix up that could create gaps on projects. And if you do not know the skills required on your project, you might not know when there is a gap and it might be too late when you get to that point in the project when you need this particular skillset. When you know the roles needed ..read more
Project Management Newbies
3y ago
While successfully developing and implementing these exotic technologies in an organization, it is very important to ensure that business processes/goals, as well as end-users, are accounted for in the BIG picture. I have seen great technology being implemented in organizations but there were gaps in the business processes modeling and requirements gathering efforts which led to errors in the final output or failure to complete transactions. I have also come across very successful IT projects that worked well- did things right and did the right thing but were not being used by employees and so ..read more
Project Management Newbies
3y ago
Most organizations, if not all, have had to one time or the other implement an IT project to improve efficiencies in the day to day running of the business. This could be in the form of creating a website, an Accounting tool, even an AI-powered chatbot to help with customer relationship management or a data migration projects from a legacy platform to a cloud platform to enable the business harness the benefits of storing their data in the cloud as opposed to On-premise. IT projects are very widespread but in my experience, they usually cover one or more of these areas: customization, integrat ..read more
Project Management Newbies
3y ago
In an earlier write-up on this website, I discussed the different components of an IT project. To help you better understand how they all come together, this week I will be discussing a fictional project that has most of these components.
Web Development
Database Management
Software Development & Implementation (Web or Mobile)
Data Mining
Cloud Computing
Network Configuration
Hardware Installation
Network and Computer Security
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Business case: So let’s assume Events Limited is a fictional event planning company – one of the largest ev ..read more
Project Management Newbies
3y ago
To successfully deliver an IT project, several IT roles need to be filled to carry out different functions on the project. Being knowledgeable about these roles would help you as an IT project manager identify any skills gap in your team on a given project.
The challenge here is that there are so many blurry lines and mix up that could create gaps on projects. And if you do not know the skills required on your project, you might not know when there is a gap and it might be too late when you get to that point in the project when you need this particular skillset. When you know the roles needed ..read more
Project Management Newbies
3y ago
While successfully developing and implementing these exotic technologies in an organization, it is very important to ensure that business processes/goals, as well as end-users, are accounted for in the BIG picture. I have seen great technology being implemented in organizations but there were gaps in the business processes modeling and requirements gathering efforts which led to errors in the final output or failure to complete transactions. I have also come across very successful IT projects that worked well- did things right and did the right thing but were not being used by employees and so ..read more
Project Management Newbies
3y ago
At a basic level, as an IT project manager, you will be required to manage successfully scope, schedule, financials, stakeholder/ team communications, and resources for your projects.
I have categorized into 5 distinct skill areas that an IT project can focus on to be successful as an IT project manager. They are:
Domain technology knowledge: An IT project manager for the most part is expected to take on a wide range of responsibilities during a project or at least be knowledgeable about them. I can say from my experience that to be successful at managing IT projects, a project manager ..read more
Project Management Newbies
3y ago
In an earlier write-up on this website, I discussed the different components of an IT project. To help you better understand how they all come together, this week I will be discussing a fictional project that has most of these components.
Web Development
Database Management
Software Development & Implementation (Web or Mobile)
Data Mining
Cloud Computing
Network Configuration
Hardware Installation
Network and Computer Security
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Business case: So let’s assume Events Limited is a fictional event planning company – one of the largest ev ..read more