Saturday can't get better than this. 😊

I had wonderful opportunity to connect with Rajat Singh - Project manager. He shared his ideas around project management, How to be better at it, What mindset to cultivate when working with team, interesting life advices.

⭕ Here are the learnings:

✔ How to handle your team better as a project manager?
✅ Understand team and have good relationships with them
✅ Trust factor is both sides. While working in remote work settings specially.
✅ If developers are giving you false estimations - make sure you have enough knowledge or have resources around you who can verify the estimations.
✅ The mindset of business logic, the reasons behind certain project management decisions - needs to be conveyed to your team - so that they can understand the sincerity of it.
✅ When it comes to estimations - Make sure you are keeping the buffer with given estimates by developers.

✔ What role agile plays in good project management?
✅ It definitely gives you the structure to make process smoother
✅ It gives clear visibility to client.
✅ It enables us to go back in case on escalations and resolve the issues.

✔ Life advice for dear people out there hustling
✅ Rather than quitting or running away from problems, fix it. solve it.
✅ Rather than just having retrospective sessions in your project, have inner retrospective too.
✅ In mumbai, Once people leave the train - they don't look back - It can be interesting perspective towards your life also. - Don't look back - keep learning and keep going. 😇
✅ Never do anything without being rational - whether its your project or life.
✅ There is always "why" hidden in situations. find out - answer it and go forward.

✔ How to manage your sanity when working as project manager?
✅ Having the discipline in life really helps.
✅ Not just planning your project but planning your day also is a game changer for being better at what you do.
✅ Whenever facing with issues - which happens quite regularly in projects - Spend time with yourself - think what went wrong, how can you resolve it, make a to-do list - implement the solution.
✅ Try not to show your stress to your team - it will impact them as well - rather make them understand the rationality behind actions.

✔ Which qualities will help you shine in your current organization?
✅ Always be willing to express your ideas
✅ Make the positive environment for your team and client
✅ Be prepared when met with adversity
✅ Process and structure always help - make the best of it.
✅ Share your ideas - if does not align with your current organization - move on to next idea - don't hold onto it if its not serving you well.
✅ Keep helping, keep being the best at what you do.


It was delightful session with Rajat Singh. He is working as Project manager and delivering wonderful projects seamlessly.