From Physical to Virtual Project Management

During the first partial lots of things happened, and although it was difficult, I learned a lot of things. I would never end if I had to list them all, but at least I’ll try, here are some things I learned during this month:

• From Topics:
  • Economics of Software Engineering
    • Sincerely, this was the most interesting topic from all. Economics is a very important thing while creating a project, and not just that, it is also important as an individual.
    • Economics is one of the key values in order to generate a truly successful project.
    • The one thing that will be recorded forever in my mind is “compound interest”, this means that you start to generate money over the one that you have already invested.
    • I also remember that you have to save a year of salary in order to face problems

• Working Remotely
  • • This topic was released thanks to the COVID-19 epidemic, and even though it is horrible to be working from home, there is always a solution for everything. In this case to flatten the epidemic curve.

• From the Lectures:
  • There is always an opportunity, you only have to find it
  • The Four Essential Ingredients of Management are:
    1. People Selection
    2. Task Matching
    3. Motivation
    4. Team Formation
  • People can’t embrace changes unless they feel safe
  • Change is essential to all success in a project
  • Avoiding risks is fatal since it causes you to miss out the associated benefit as well
  • Management is not a cerebral science, Management is in the gut, in the heart, and in the soul
  • There is no such thing as a short term productivity fix
  • The productivity improvements always come from a long term investment
  • Anything that promises short term fixes are likely to be snake oil
  • You have to assess each risk for probability and likely cost
  • You can improve your performance by containing your failures more than by optimizing your success
  • You have to be willing to put your job on the line any day
  • Pathological Politics are characterized for being goals of personal power and for try to override the natural goals