Information Technology Project Management Week 1 DQ 1
Student: Habib Poundja Botale
Question: “Which skills do you think are most important for an information technology project manager? Can a project manager learn all of these skills, or are some innate?”
In one way or another, we make plans and try to carry them out. For example, going on vacation, buying car, etc. To achieve them, taking as example an holiday trip, we project ourselves forward into the future, we visualize the destination, we get information on prices of airline tickets, of hotels, we define departure and return date, we take the plane, we rent a room, we enjoy the stay, then we come back home, full of new experiences.
In this example, we can deduce that to complete a project, one must * be able to define the goal to achieve * be able to cut the achievement of the objective in several activities logically inter related (Analytical skills) * be able to find ways to solve and / or perform different tasks (Solution oriented)
These capabilities are, usually, innate. However, it is possible that the holiday by taking the above example, goes wrong (ticket too expensive, poorly located hotel, not enough money on oneself, late return, etc.). To prevent any these inconveniences, the next time, we will define the holiday period depending on cost of tickets, of hotels, the cost of living in the region of destination, etc. Then we will define a budget, a return period taking account of uncertainties, etc. In other words, based on previous experiences, we will improve the planning and the budget of the vacation, etc.
In this second part of the trip example, other skills were added: * the ability to define actions to be taken in different periods * the ability to define the means necessary to achieve the goal * the ability to anticipate actions based on potential risks
These capabilities, in