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The positivity is, there are opportunity for project team but he/she should know where to step in. Project
managers and there’s not many talents available in the Manager should not to be an administrator, he should
market. Negativity is, you don’t have those many roles be a leader. As a Leader you should lead by example.
available in the industry. The number of Project Project Manager should know everything about the
Managers in any organization is limited to approx. 1% project, he/she goes and supports his project team
of their total strength. But still there is a good demand where they need it.
for seasoned Project Managers in the industry.

You are a PMP and have knowledge of PMBOK so,
how does it help you in managing Product Project Manager is like a drone flying high looking over
everything and he/she knows when and where the
Development Projects?
strings to be pulled, just like Kathputali (Marionette).
PMBOK is a structured way of approaching to Project
Management. Today other than PMBOK, PRINCE2 is That’s the project manager’s role, he plays with the
another version of framework available, which is used strings. Project Manager’s focus should be on four
by most of the European companies. US based things Quality, Delivery, cost and Resource. He doesn’t
have to look anywhere else. Product development is all
multinational companies are following PMI-PMBOK.
PMBOK is important because it touches each and every about time to market how fast you take your product to
function of organisation. It teaches each and every the market, how much revenue you earn for the
aspect of project management. If you see PMBOK, it organization. The moment you delay that you are in
loss. Project manager should always keep in mind that
does not provide you with any readymade templates.
There are 5 processes in the PMBOK and 9 knowledge project should be on schedule. Cost, quality can be
areas. There’s single page in PMBOK which shows all 5 recovered. But time cannot be recovered, once the time
is gone it is gone. The success criteria for project is to
processes and 9 knowledge areas, I think that single
be ON TIME, with required QUALITY, COST & should
page is so important that you get crux of complete
Project Management. I started giving this approach into be within BUDGET. The focus of PM should always be
Emerson. It gives you direction and tells you where to on above parameters.
go but doesn’t tell you how to go there. How to go there What are common challenges that you face
is your approach and it varies organization to regarding management of Product development
organization. In some companies PMBOK is not Projects?
completely followed. So it is necessary to see how The first challenge that we are facing is, having skilled
PMBOK is made useful to your industry & organisation. (human) resources working on projects. There are
In Emerson product development cycle has almost multiple projects going on at the same time but focus of
205+ processes. We found that some of the processes PM group should be on top priority projects of the
were not useful for EGS & per business requirement we organization. You may not get skilled resources from
curtail it down to 105 processes. It is important to see respective functions to work on projects. Sometimes,
how PMBOK is applicable to your Organization. you need to compromise or trade off on the availability
of resources. Another challenge we have is global
You lead team of Project Managers every day, what
are your expectations from entry level Project environment. Dealing with multi-locational, multi-
Managers? cultural team is challenging. The working culture and
ascents in continents are different. In managing a
At basic level, Project Manager must know how
project it is impossible to travel each & every time for
different departments work in an organization and
must have basic knowledge about it. If you know how the project team. So you need to take help of video &
each department works, then you would be in a position audio conferencing. In my opinion, the complete project
team should meet face to face at the time of project kick
to challenge them. So Project Coordinator reviews what
off & the project manager should conduct planning
work is done whereas Project Manager checks how
work is done. As project manager, he or she is not workshop for the project to define timelines & scope.
supposed to be stepping in the day to day activities of

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