Much can be read in the modern corporate world about the importance of project management in organizations in order to maximize results, manage risks properly define scope, schedule and quality among others (Gann, 2000). Despite all the fizz about it, abundant material available, studies show that many projects fail for many reasons, such as lack of resources, errors in the estimation of time, lack of knowledge of business clients without the vision of what they want, scopes poorly designed, unrealistic deadlines, project managers unprepared among other reasons.
Discussion
Professional project management must be committed to the business of the organization as a whole, not only with their tasks. It's the difference between professional “reports that his job is to tell stones and the other, doing the same task, says it is building a cathedral.” The project leader is responsible for managing and integrating all stakeholders, and need to have technical skills and knowledge to circumvent the barriers of the day-to-day (Kreiner, 1995).
Having a few characteristics that are awareness of the costs and benefits for the project, ability to work in team self-motivation and ability to motivate, negotiation skills and results orientation are necessary for product manager. For this entire set of procedures to apply, the company must set some ground rules, allowing their managers understand and contextualize all activities involved in their areas and how they interrelate in time and how it ends up becoming a project managed corporate form. One of these rules concerns the strategy of product innovation and the recommendation is: do not create new products or technological innovation without the product committee (representatives from all areas of the company) to evaluate and approve the new ideas brought by intelligence management product (Gann, 2000). This ensures you do not waste time and money creating products ...