understand different project models and methods primarily in IT industry with key personality traits for beginners to manage projects.

1. Project Models, Methodologies
and Personality traits
Anand Shah

2. Rules
• Icebreaker 1
• Icebreaker 2

3. Agenda
• Who should attend
• What it contents
• How will we go
• What will be accomplished
• Questions & answers

4. Who should attend
• Tech and Test Lead
• Senior consultant
• Project Managers
• Architect

5. Project and Management
• Unique in nature
• Specific business objectives to achieve
• Measurable
• Achievable
• Realistic
• time bound
• Professionally and transparent
• Need for diversified skills and resources

6. Concept
• Independent of domains, cultures, Geography
• Collective and Focused professional approach

7. Key Factors
• Managing Business
• Managing Change
• Managing Resources
• Managing Stakeholders, relationship, expectation
• Managing Conflict and Ambiguity
• Managing Reporting
• Managing Financials
• Managing Projects – Risks, Quality, Schedule,
Scope

8. Skills
• Organic and organize
• Discipline and detail
• Communicate and social
• Managing priorities
• Know boundary and threshold
• Know strength and weakness
• Balanced Approach

9. Types of Operating model
• Fixed bid
• T & M
• Waterfall
• Agile
• Hybrid

10. Types of Project
• Development
• Support
• Extended Support
• Transition
• Upgrade
• Migration
• Datacenters

11. Frameworks and Methodologies
• Prince2
• PMBOK
• ITIL
• TOGAF
• COBIT
• HIPPA
• eTOM

12. Activity
• Think as you are business sponsor and having
set of fund to spend against business needs.
• You need to create a project/s so that you can
resolve your business problem.
• You may refer print outs given
• Tips – keep it simple and try to consider
all/most aspect of the concept and elaborate
as you can think.

13. Example - Technical
• Develop intranet solution for CIGNEX
Datamatics

14. Example – Non Technical
• Develop a solution to a parking issue at CD
Ahmedabad premise
• Business benefits – Parking and time
management, security of employee vehicle,
employee satisfaction
• Business change – Unorganized and chaos
parking to organized parking
• Key Stakeholders – CD Admin, Security, HR
and Management

15. Example – Non Technical Cont..
• Project Charter – Analysis of parking slots need,
What can be accommodate in current load and
what cannot, Risk mitigation and provision for
extra parking slots
• Timeframe – Need to phase down this initiative in
two: 1 month to analysis, plan and design
solution and 1 month to implement
• Criteria – Win-win solution fit within budget,
minimum conflict management, employee
satisfaction, security, time management

16. Personality Traits
• Think beyond and big
• Put oneself in other’s shoes
• Think project first
• Think customer first
• Think organization first
• Easy to change self than others
• Collective thinking and decision making

17. Personality Traits Cont..
• Give support and seek support when needed
• Balanced Approach
• Ethical and Justice
• Accountable and responsible leader
• Share and contribute to the community
• Attach and Detach
• Try to Unbiased

18. Everyone is important
• All animals have different and unique
qualities. The rabbit will be our messenger
because he runs fast. The tortoise can hide
and spy on the border posts. The loud voice of
the donkey can be used as a bugle call. We
must learn to respect everyone.
• Nothing right or wrong
• All about effective and efficient utilization of
available resources.

19. Manager and Leader
• Push Vs Pull
• Organic Vs manipulated
• Dynamic Vs focused
• People Vs Process
• Responsible Vs Accountable
• Delegation Vs Empowerment
• Alternative Vs demanding

20. Manager and Consultant
• Types of Consultant
• Consultancy
• SME
• End to end Vs influential
• Independent Vs dependent
• Transparency Vs Isolation

21. Push Vs Pull
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22. Manager and Technology
• Pros and Cons
• Attach and Detach
• Business benefits
• Technology trends
• Alternative thinking

23. Exercise
• Find alternative to reduce usage of natural gas
and/or petrol with minimum investment
though big impact in a larger scale
• E.g. Germany Govt surveyed that due to car
parking issues in multi-story car parking
building gallons of fuel wasted every year to
find available car park easily. So they
sponsored project to develop solution for the
same.

24. Summary
• Models and methodologies
• Basic concept
• Need for the management
• Personality trait and skills
• Differences
• Business case