Managing a project

4 steps
Planning
Execution
Controlling
Closing

Planning or design
The main purpose is to plan time, cost and resources adequately to estimate the work needed and to effectively manage risk during project execution. As with the Initiation process group, a failure to adequately plan greatly reduces the project's chances of successfully accomplishing its goals.

Executing
Executing consists of the processes used to complete the work defined in the project plan to accomplish the project's requirements. Execution process involves coordinating people and resources, as well as integrating and performing the activities of the project in accordance with the project management plan. The deliverables are produced as outputs from the processes performed as defined in the project management plan and other frameworks that might be applicable to the type of project at hand.

Controlling
controlling consists of those processes performed to observe project execution so that potential problems can be identified in a timely manner and corrective action can be taken, when necessary, to control the execution of the project. The key benefit is that project performance is observed and measured regularly to identify variances from the project management plan.

Closing
Closing includes the formal acceptance of the project and the ending thereof. Administrative activities include the archiving of the files and documenting lessons learned.

Teamworking

Teamwork is group of individuals who are working together to achieve a common goal.
In teams, people work interdependently and they know they can accomplish goals by mutual help. Moreover they trust each other, and share their knowledge.
Teamwork involves more people, ideas, resources and energy than an individual would have. There is always a team behind every successful organization.
In a team, people usually work with particular roles for different members of the team.
The team roles are specific and interdependent:
1. Team leader - he may or may not be part of the managerial staff. The leader is responsible for providing resources required by the team to carry out their tasks, for reminding the team what result the company expects of them and finally for creating an environment that helps them to get work done.
2. Team facilitator – establishes the ground rules and makes sure that they are respected. His role is to make sure that decision-making is not dominated by strong personalities in the team.
3. Team recorder – he is responsible for writing down key points, ideas and decisions at meetings. Recording ideas is important and the recorded text should be as close to the actual words used as possible.
4. Timekeeper – is monitoring how long the team is taking to accomplish its tasks and is providing the team with regular information on how well or poorly they use their time.
5. Team members – should be enthusiastic and commited to the team’s goals and be willing to share knowledge, respect the opinions, etc. The team members know the strengths and weaknesses and they understand how to work with each other.
Team working skills are essential in almost every job and sector:
Collaboration, commitment, cooperation, creativity, flexibility, group decision-making, honesty, leadership, multitasking, negotiating, opinion exchange, problem solving, relationship building, responsibility
Instead of motivating a single individual there is need to focus on building strong team members, the attitude of them, how to train the members, a constant appreciation, provision of equal promotions, etc.
Every organization gives more importance to team work because they know this is the key to success. An increasing number of companies are using teams to respond quickly to changing conditions of an environment. Achieving flexibility and innovation requires teamwork. None of is as smart as all of us.

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