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I was Project Manager for our 10 person team, which was responsible for creating a Project Management System to replace an existing paper based system our option head had. My primary responsibility was that of managing risk and motivating the rest of the team to complete the project. This involved; - massive amounts of planning
- collaboration with key team members.
- facilitating communication,
- planning and chairing regular team meetings,
- regularly assigning tasks to team members,
- following up on tasks with team members,
- responding to issues raised by the team,
- keeping the team on schedule,
- balancing the team's load in the face of competing interests,
- addressing poor performance and conflicting team values
The team settled on an ASP based implementation that used COM components to talk to a SQLServer database. This allowed for a centrally managed database of projects, estimates, budgets, submitted time-sheets, approvals, work packages, and reports, which could be securely accessed from anywhere in the world, while assuring the integrity of the data.I learned that I'm capable of more than I thought I was, and I learned that I'm reasonably good at working with a team of people and managing them and their expectations so that the project gets finished "Well and On-Time"
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