Stress and Project Manager

Being a Project Manager stress will be always your companion in your life. Schedule management, scope management, resource management and with all that your personal life management is also important. Some problem in your family, any serious sickness to family member, conflict in team or other so many reasons are there to handle with project as a project manager. Project deadlines, client feedback, overdue tasks or anything else can lead to stress. Mind cannot take decision at that point of time and think how to manage self in that type of situation? To be a successful manager it is always necessary that you are happy family person also.

Some people have nature that they can handle it in a different way and leave it in office but other people take stress of office to home also. So, personal life disturb and if it continues long time then it can be seriously affect to the person in a various types:

1) Headache

2) Short temper

3) Muscle pain

4) Cardiovascular diseases

5) Suicide

So many other areas are there that can affected by stress. So to manage the stress at right time is very important to stay away some serious injury to health.

As a project manager, if any conflict arise between the team then try to handle it like a leader. If any team member performance going down seriously then you can inform him to discuss with HR regarding that if it’s out of your box. Don’t think always like that it’s all your fault if any issue arise in Project.

Project manager can do some exercise to keep peaceful mind. Better sleep is always necessary in all the case to avoid stress. Take some break in your work to refresh mind at regular interval. Use good project management software to manage your tasks and other required things related to project.

Don’t say always ‘Yes’ to the client, if you think that assigned task cannot be completed within given time-frame then discuss with client and reschedule the timeline. Don’t try always to keep your client happy if it’s not possible anyway.

Try to listen employee more then to react. Keep patience and trust on your employee. Try to encourage them when require. If employee returns from the long leave then performance can be down sometime due to lack of concentration. Accept that type of situation with patience or be ready for some other in project.

Try to keep friendly and peaceful environment in your office and also in your personal life. Be a positive and keep positive people around you to keep negativity away.

Time management is always main aspect for project manager, because it’s not always just 8 hours job but except that its require life balance also. Don’t try to work with tired mind and keep pressure on yourself.

To sum up, Stress can be occur any time in life due to any reason. Illness, death or any serious injury in life can be suddenly occur. Take leave and solve the family issues also to keep your mind happy and peaceful. Work is always necessary but with that personal life balance is always important to avoid stress in life and to live a life happily and peaceful!

First Sharepoint project as a Project Manager

Generally speaking, if you are working as a Project Manager, then achieve the target of the Project and make it successful is always your highest priority goal. As a Project Manager you can get different type of Projects with sometime different types of technologies too. If one Project manager works most of time for one type of technology Projects and get different type of technology Project then he/she has to get some types of basic level knowledge about that technology to help him/her to understand vision about Project better and clear.

As a Project Manager, If you get first Project in Sharepoint and before that you never handled any Sharepoint Project then these tips can be help you.

You are Project Manager and you handled many Projects with typical software lifecycle methodology and you get first Sharepoint Project to manage then you can take your some time to make yourself familiar about it.

First of all you can read some blogs about Sharepoint to get basic idea about it like Paul Culmsee or any other good articles that you can prefer. You can also read some articles about “How Sharepoint Project success” or “Why Sharepoint Projects fail”.

Sharepoint Project require infrastructure setup for its architecture as per the requirement. As a Project Manager you always have a functional documentation to going into the flow of the Project. If you think Project estimation without thinking as a Sharepoint Project and after thinking as a Sharepoint Project is vast difference. Initially you thought some server for your Project and after discussion with expert you got some idea about configuration of server so it may make huge difference to your budget of Project. Your company can show you few Sharepoint Projects which they executed early and brief out you some main lesson learnt from it, so you can keep focus on that. Some Sharepoint technical expert can be with you to help in technical way and led to you towards flow of development.

Compare to other technology Project, Sharepoint Project require expertise in deploy and maintain it on server. It require some support to manage it always on server. You can follow to check for Active directory setup, maintain security, infrastructure setup, networking and backup plan for Sharepoint Project management.

As a Project Manager, I think Agile will be the best methodology that can follow for Sharepoint Project rather than typical waterfall method, because you will not get full requirement vision at the start but in each iteration you will get clear yourself and take Project towards success.