The project management as a discipline is, for me, indispensable when you want to achieve the things that are important for you in your life.
Associated to the project management discipline, we can find the roles below:
- Project manager
- Project director
- Program manager
- And more …
To simplify for this article, I’ll speak only of the project manager role as I see it.
Most of the time we see project manager as a role in a company to support the others by remembering them when they must accomplish their tasks. the truth is, it is more complex than that.
The project manager must keep an eye on the scope, the planning and the costs and guarantee that these 3 dimensions stay within the limits defined at the start of the project.
To be able to do so, the project manager need a set of skills like coordination, anticipation, leadership, organisation, mental agility, hard skills related to the sector for the most important ones.
If we go back to the things that you want to accomplish in your life, you need to be able to handle them as a project to progress on them. As my old father was used to say to me, the life is a sum of many little projects that you can achieve.
The secret of project management, what ever the methodology behind, is your ability to frame it. Basically you need to breakdown a complex problem to solve in small problem that are at your reach and plan them in the time. With that no difficulty will surpass you.