What are some of your most successful project management experiences?

Success has several "layers", different perspectives. One of the perspectives is customer/sponsor benefiting and valuing the project outcomes. In case of new products development projects, benefiting comes later. "Success" is verified (later) by business/product units that would confront the initial business plan/model with the reality. Such analysis is mostly at the senior management level, eventually portfolio manager, but in most cases outside project manager perspective.

In the realm of project success, a multitude of factors come into play, and these typically vary based on the project's type and scale. This variation spans the spectrum from small, internal company projects to extensive, global ones. For successful project management, consider these key elements: -Change Management: Prioritize this as highly as budget and time! every project as a transition from the status quo to a new state. -Communication Strategy: clearly define who receives what information, in which format, and at what intervals, aligning with principles of communication psychology. -Role Clarity: From the project's inception, clearly define and align roles and responsibilities to ensure effective collaboration and accountability.

I believe that the success of a project depends on many factors, but there are some elements that are essential for a successful delivery, such as assertive communication, flexibility and change management, effective monitoring of project indicators and well-defined roles, regardless of the size of the project, I think that if we take these factors into account, together with all the others (cost management, resource management, schedule, among others) we can achieve success in projects.

Vivir la experiencia de ejecución de un proyecto deja muchas lecciones de aprendizaje; sobre todo, de disciplina y responsabilidad. En lo particular la conservación de la memoria y la visibilidad de resultados juegan un papel importante. He tenido la oportunidad de participar en proyectos de colaboración internacional, y recientemente en proyectos de I+D+i; en realidad la diferencia es el alcance de estos; porque otras dimensiones requieren de igual dedicación y empeño. Disfruto ser parte de un grupo de personas emprendedoras, que juegan de manera inteligente con la limitante del tiempo y el manejo de recursos; que apuestan por la calidad de resultados, y velan celosamente por el impacto esperado.

Identifying a project's success criteria is a very important factor otherwise we will not be able to measure its success ratio. Understand the issue in detail and come up with some solutions before meeting Sponsor and end users to understand their expectations and then brainstorm it and then find the best solutions and then success measurements as big rocks like what requirements like features, technology, regulatory and accounting standards, UAT, POC, Sign off criteria, need to consider new changes before implementation or new requirements release on agile mode. So without the success criteria measurement projects get difficult to see its progress or completion.

In my perspective, at all times, I would suggest the PM should diligently pursue the key concepts of project management i.e initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & controlling, closing. Wherein, the above phase of the project describes the PM to identify The key stakeholders, Collect requirements of customers, Define scope & deliverables, Estimate resources/ costs/ time/Quality, Plan communication, Develop WBS, Identify risk & analysis / mitigation plan, Managing & executing resources/ costs/ schedule management, Effective monitoring/ control on project execution progress on defined scope/cost/time/quality framed, Finally verify them & project closing. Thank you

The best approach to follow is to get into user shoes then only we can understand their requirements and think of solutions which can meet the requirements so always follow the STAR approach. STAR stands for situation, Task, Action & Result. Situation like setting the scene to understand what is causing the issue or what change is required? Task, requires the details of the issues or purpose for the changes required. Action, what we are proposing as a solution and how it can resolve it. Result, show the result by milestones and get the POC in beginning and then final with UAT sign off and then go live. Which makes the planned phase by phase process achievements and gains confidence from all the stakeholders.

Ich bin schon sehr lange im Projektmanagement tätig. Ein maßgeblicher Faktor ist meiner Ansicht nach klare und eindeutige Kommunikation. Alles andere führt nur zu vermeidbaren Diskussionen und Mißverständnissen.

Project managers are not always experts in all the required topics of the project and which is not a mandatory thing too but PM always needs to co-ordinate and work with all the experts to achieve the project success. PM contributions are very important in all the 5 phases (initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and closing) of the project as we should know when and with whom we should work along to progress or resolve issues and importantly change management and bring stakeholders inputs throughout all the phases of the project and gather the project all the knowledge of the project at the end and document them and which will be helpful for future projects success and smooth completion.

🎧Add some frontloading activities to your project. Every late Change will be costly for your projects. All those upfront developments will pay off later on.

Creo firmemente que en la gestión de proyectos, poner al cliente en el centro de todo es esencial. Comunicarnos activamente con ellos, entender sus necesidades y ajustar nuestras acciones en consecuencia no solo mejora la satisfacción del cliente, sino que también eleva la calidad del proyecto. La retroalimentación constante crea un ciclo de mejora continua, asegurando que lo que entregamos realmente cumpla con sus expectativas y añada valor real.