Step-4 - monitoring and control
:
Of late you and the team started to think that the project
review meetings are a waste of time. Very often it turns
out to be a stock taking meeting, with a very ad hoc focus
on the issues and concerns. The decisions are very short
sighted. If you had the foresight and knowledge about what
is required you would have planned for it and unfortunately
that is not the case. Due to all these, you are not very
confident on the current project status, the real issues
and concerns and whether the speed of execution is sufficient
to meet the deadline. Everybody is busy executing the project
and work very hard, but you, the project manager is under
tremendous pressure and is not very sure......
If you are a Project Management Professional,
you will have sufficient knowledge on Monitoring and Controlling
,
* Measure Project Performance
*Verify and Manage Changes to the Project
* Ensure Project Deliverables Conform to Quality Standards
* Monitor all Risks This knowledge will
help you do your job better.
Closing the Project :
*Obtain Final Acceptance
for the Project
*Obtain Financial, Legal, and Administrative
Closure
*Release Project Resources *Identify, Document and
Communicate Lessons Learned
*Create and Distribute Final
Project Report
* Archive and Retain Project Records
* Measure
Customer Satisfaction and this knowledge will help you to
be more proactive, which is the essence of successful project
management.
Step - 5 - professional responsibility :
Your company is subcontracting a part of the work, related
to your project. One of the potential sub contractors
is your friend's friend. One day, he calls you for a party
and offers you a small packet containing a gift. Your
company policies do not allow you to take any gift of
value more than $100, from the subcontractors of the company.
In this case, he is only a potential sub contractor and
the value of the gift is not known, at the time of receipt
of the gift. You are in a dilemma. What is the right action?
A Project Management Professional will definitely know
how to handle such situations professionally and ethically.
The Project Management Professional examination focuses
on the professional responsibility of project managers.
These are the reasons why Project Management Professional
credential is widely acclaimed world wide. Project management
is becoming more and more complex due to
1. Distributed developmental work
2. Cultural issues
3. Time zone issues
4. Legal issues
5. Copy rights
6. Environmental issues
7. Pressure to reduce cycle time All these calls for expert
project managers.
A search in http://www.nishtha.com gives
me more than 150 opportunities for project managers, where
Project Management Professional credential is specifically
mentioned as criteria for selection. You are better with
Project Management Professional, than without it.