Human Relations/Proj Mgmt. Recap

WOW! What a crazy 6 weeks I had! Three weeks of Human Relations and the other three weeks of Project Management. So, all this means is I know how to deal with you and create a successful project, so what? The main thing is, I really actually learned that everyone is different, and even though you may think you are one of those people that everyone get’s along with, think again.

The Human Relations Part

Human Relations is one of those things where people sit there and decide how to make the stakeholder happy and how you can become successful. This, my friend is a hard task. Of course, Mr. Herzburg didn’t think it was hard at all himself now did he? So, what do we have to do? We have to meet with the client, be professional enough to impress the client, find out what the client needs (more wants), and give the client a deadline and set milestones for the client to meet with us to discuss progress. This is all done in a sitting? More less, yes.

So what happens next? Well, some people join as a group, and others quit their jobs. What should you do is a better philosophy. You gather your group together (someone in the back yells and grabs a few drinks!! no no) and create a project management team. A project management team is composed of so many things, and such things that if I were to get into it, this would no longer be a post, or even readable, because I would probably fall asleep writing it. The main thing is, project management is what makes the final project successful.

The Project Management Part

Ok, so now you have a Project Team (we hope) and you are now ready to plan. Of course, as with everything else in this world, you have a project leader, but correctly put, you now have a Project Manager. All this person does is keep the project on queue and makes sure that there are no fallbacks. If there are fallbacks, the Project Manager looks into and helps the team figure out how they can fix it, or more than likely, work around it. Then we of course have to have the labor workers Project Team Members, in which are the people that actually do all the work behind the whole project. The ones that sweat, or sit in the office and code their hands off at a local church website of some sort. These are the people we come to respect, the ones with look up to, the ones we honor (stops the patriotic music).

So, it’s been a long 6 weeks here at the college, but its over and it’s time to take a bigger/better step into Information Technology. I’m not gonna go on that note though.

My question to all is, why do so many projects fail? Is it the Managers or the team members, or is it the client. I haven’t really been in the job field and this is only a glimpse of what Human Relations/Project Management is. Not only that, but I have never been in a real project management team, mostly I have done sole work, which in my own opinion, is so much better. So, I don’t really know why projects fail, but I hear about it on a daily basis, or weekly if you must. It’s sad and at the same time, confusing.

Enlighten me.