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5 Reasons Engineers Need to Develop Project Management Skills

LiquidPlanner

Here’s a lesson I’m thankful I learned early in my career: successful engineering projects rely more on non-technical skills than technical skills. It’s not that the technical skills aren’t important – they are. One can’t design a building without knowledgeable, skilled structural, MEP, and fire engineers.

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What is a technical project manager? (And why you should think about becoming one)

Planio

As products become more complex, technical project managers have quickly become the holy grail for growing businesses. Technical project managers (TPM) bridge the gap between understanding what’s technically possible in a project and managing the resources, timelines, and expectations to get it done. First, learn the basics.

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How to Make a Prototype: Product Prototyping Basics

ProjectManager.com

Ideas are essential to product development, but they’re intangible. These mockups can help further the design, materialize your product vision and get feedback from the engineering team. It’s through these exercises that design and engineering departments communicate and develop the idea into a working product.

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How to Budget For Your Company’s Technical Debt

Zen Project Management

Guest post by Dr. Mik Kersten While “technical debt” is a term that’s frequently used by technologists, the implication and understanding of it tends to be opaque to the business until it’s too late - just look at how Nokia lost the mobile market that it helped create. What’s technical debt?

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Making Things Happen [Book Review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Normally I take lots of notes when I’m reading books for review. This brainstorming element normally falls outside of the traditional project management role, but is more prevalent in software projects, when engineers have a free reign to come up with new ideas and then have to see them through. It’s all brilliant.

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Main Risks of Aerospace Engineering Projects: How to Implement Wise Risk Management into Your Organization

Epicflow Blog

The aerospace engineering sector deals with mostly large and complex projects. What are the most typical risks associated with aerospace engineering projects, and how to manage them effectively? Main Risks Affecting Aerospace Engineering Projects. developing a poor project plan), Executing (e.g., Engineering risks.

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Risk Breakdown Structure for Projects: A Complete Guide to RBS

ProjectManager.com

Either way, project managers have to prepare for risk, either good or bad—it can interfere with project objectives. More often, you’ll address it during the planning phase when you assign roles and responsibilities to your team members. Technical: Scope, requirements and other technical issues call into this category.

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