The Rockstar Project Manager.

Transparency, compassion, creativity, and critical thinking are the quadfecta that helps my team achieve great heights.

Before, when I was in college, I always imagined that project management was just a bunch of tedious processes to drive projects from start to end. I thought that it was enough to know the basics, and then all should be good.

But this isn’t how great project managers work at all.

Immediately after graduating college, I started working as a developer. At that point, I felt like there should be more to it which led me to begin searching for answers that brought me the following objectives:

• Understand the culture of the team and their existing process by observing and communicating
• Discuss project plans together with the team
• Encourage my team to be transparent and have their voices heard
• Be a leader who knows when to decline requirements and support them with facts conferred with the team
• Enhance the current process based on observation during the project life cycle
• Trust my team and prepare them to become leaders and not just followers
• Drive growth by motivating my team to explore outside of their comfort zone
• Accept my weaknesses by taking constructive criticism to improve myself

I improved the existing processes of the teams I’ve worked with by being someone they can trust. Project management is not just about the processes needed to make a project successful; not just about satisfying the stakeholders by saying “YES” to everything in defiance of logic and in exchange for the teams’ morale. It is more than that, and that’s where I stand with my team.

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