Project management at home – how to bring your work skills home

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The author spent the first part of her career working in IT and IT Project Management in the oil industry and investment banking on complex global projects involving the management of outsourced project teams. She now runs a digital marketing company with particular expertise in technical SEO and Content Marketing.

Project management skills are not only useful in the office – they are highly transferable and can be used in the home.

The word project is used for so many things – work project, class project, project management but they all have one thing in common. Whatever type of project you are planning then you will need to have a plan in place so that you can complete all the work that needs doing and reach the conclusion that you need.

The benefits of project training are, of course, that you will have the tools in place to help you work through whatever project you take on quickly and effectively. In order to bring all those important skills home with you there are a couple of things that you understand.

What is project management?

Project management is defined as the application of skills, knowledge, and appropriate techniques in order to complete a project in an efficient and effective manner. Project management is a strategic method used by companies in order to ensure that they achieve the appropriate results with their projects, allowing them to compete better within their sector of business.

Project management can be broken down into five parts; initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, closing.

Constraints in project management

Whether you are project managing in an office or using your project management skills at home on a project of your own you will find yourself faced with the same three constraints. Time, cost and scope. These are the things that affect the quality of your project and how you tackle it, the key to project managing is to make the most of what you do within the constraints that you are under.

The processes of project management

No matter where you are completing your project you will need to follow the same set of processes in order to achieve the best results.

Initiating – this is the process where you will identify what you are looking for and what outcome you hope to achieve.

Planning – Consider what your priorities are, how long you expect the project to take, whether you need help from others and what tools you will need. These are all things that will help you to formulate a good plan.

Executing – This part of your process will involve looking at the elements of your plan and working on them as you move closer to your end goal. It will probably involve plenty of communication with other people.

Monitoring and controlling – If parts of your plan are not going as they should be, this is your opportunity to step back, look at your plan and make the necessary adjustments in order to compensate for any issues you have encountered.

Closing – You have finally reached the end of your project and achieved the results you were hoping for, having overcome any obstacles along the way.

Conclusion

A project management training course can offer you some great skills that are highly transferable. Project managers can use their skills to move from one industry to another, working on a real selection of different projects. They can also come in very handy in the home when they can be transferred to any project you might want to undertake there as well.

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Project management has developed into a fully-fledged chartered profession since the granting of the Royal Charter in the UK to The Association for Project Management (APM) in 2017. Training courses for project managers were already available and highly popular to help people gain professional project management accreditation, but with this wider recognition of the profession it is now seen as a desirable career path for many. Whilst the APM has the coveted Royal Charter and continues to develop its APM PMQ (formerly the APMP) programmes, there are also other internationally recognised qualifications that continue to be highly regarded such as PMP and PRINCE2.

Organisations have become increasingly project-focused in this era of rapidly emerging new technologies and they value the expertise that comes with experienced and fully qualified project teams and managers. By investing in their project management capability businesses can be confident of delivering their new projects in time and on budget more often and more successfully. Many major corporation are now training their people to have the right project management qualifications as well as relevant experience, through internal Learning & Development (L&D) programmes; or by using external project management training providers.

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