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Project Management Basics for Beginners: 13 Simple Project Management Tips - YouTube
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[Music Intro]
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>>Hello.
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I'm Jennifer Whit, Director of ProjectManager.com.
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Welcome to our whiteboard session today on
about PM, Project Management for Beginners.
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So whether you are an accidental project manager,
someone who just accidentally fell into the
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profession or someone who is an intentional
project manager, someone who's been planning
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in advance, and preparing, and studying for
project management.
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So these are 13 keys that someone shared with
me when I initially started project management
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and I wanted to share them with you.
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I've always found them helpful and I've always
kept them in hand.
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Number one; know the definition of a project.
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So many times there are certain things that
are going on that are project related versus
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operations, they're operationally related.
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So knowing the difference between the two
and tracking the project related activities
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with the project and not intermingling in
the operational aspects.
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Number two: understanding the project lifecycle
and associated deliverables.
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There are many different references that you
can go to.
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You can actually Google these terms or you
can go to the Project Management Institute
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and they have a project management body of
knowledge that has this defined.
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Number three: it's important to keep things
simple.
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I mean, a lot of projects are complex, but
if you keep things simple, well, after all
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it just makes it simple.
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There is something to be said for making complex
projects simple.
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Number four: seek help.
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If you're stuck on something, instead of remaining
stuck and seeking out help, just go ahead
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and seek out help so you don't become a bottle
neck for your own project.
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And ask questions, I know when I started there
were two people that I sought out that I asked
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any kind of questions.
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I just sat and I asked the same kind of questions
over and over and over until I got it.
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So it's important to go ahead and ask questions,
get clarification, get the support that you
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need while you need it at that time.
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Number six: enlist your mentors.
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I think it's important to have mentors.
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I still today have my list of mentors who
helped me in different areas.
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So find one that can help you, not only mentor
you with your project related activities,
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but maybe mentor you in the organization or
the type of project that you're doing.
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Number seven: Identify your go to people.
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So always on my teams and in my organizations
or even the stakeholders or the customer's
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organizations, I find my go-to people.
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Those are the people that I know I can go
to and always get information I need, the
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support or escalation or any kind of information
that I need.
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Those are my go to people.
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Number eight: respect your team.
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I mean you team can literally make you or
break you, so if you disrespect your team
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they're going to disrespect you.
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You're going to lose loyalty and you do need
your team to get things done.
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Number nine: listen to your customers and
your stakeholders.
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They'll be the ones who will give you information
that you may not as the project manager be
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able to receive.
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They get important information about the market
their serving, their customers, their organization,
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different inputs that need to go in and continually
be assessed and incorporated into your project.
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Number ten: discern input.
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Sometimes coming in new to a project people
may see you on your team as, "ah there's the
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new project manager" and they may try to slip
things by you or see how much you know.
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And they may provide you input into maybe
estimates or statuses.
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So be able to discern what people are telling
you and get a gut feel, if it seems accurate
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or not.
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If it doesn't, again, go back and ask questions
and seek more details.
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Number eleven: leverage templates.
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If you don't have any templates it's important
to create some.
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There are many sources for project management
templates today.
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You can find them probably within your organization
or definitely access different sources on
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the internet.
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Also number twelve: prepare yourself.
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It's important before everything you do is
preparing yourself.
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Prepare yourself for team meetings or any
kind of meetings you have, prepare yourself
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for any presentations you're going to give,
prepare yourself for the day.
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Prepare yourself for the project.
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Know what project is this, what is the business
objective?
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Who are the team members, knowing anything
specifically about the project?
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So you can never prepare too much.
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So prepare yourself for the project and the
type of people in the organization you're
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serving.
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And number thirteen: plan.
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Just continue to plan, plan, plan, always
plan what you're doing instead of going in
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improve or unprepared for your project.
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So those are some of the thirteen keys that
someone gave me early on and I still keep
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those in hand today and I hope they'll help
you too with your projects coming in as a
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beginner in project management.
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So if you're a beginner starting into project
management and you need any tips, tools or
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techniques or better yet project management
software, then sign up for our software at
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