- Make Sure You Have a Project
Before you start trying to manage a project, make sure you have one! That
advice may sound simple, but I’ve heard it time and time again from expert
project managers.
A project is a set of tasks with a start date, end date, and deliverable. A
deliverable can be, for example, a physical product or functioning website.
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all the tasks to someone else and receive something back at the end, you’ve got
yourself a project.
Sometimes people confuse ongoing work with projects, so let me give a few
examples of ongoing work to make it clear. Writing new content for a website
every week is ongoing work, even though you could look at the production of
one single piece of writing as its own little project. Providing maintenance
support for code is ongoing work. Answering customer emails or phone calls is
ongoing work.
- Have a Discovery Period
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it’s a period of time when the people requesting the project explore what they
want to do or make and why. It could be a meeting, a series of meetings, or an
open period of time for exploration.