The company that I currently work at is quite proficient with project management. It has a dedicated project management office with several project managers. Projects are ranked in priority, and the status of the highest priority projects are regularly reported to the executive board.

For things like timelines, the software that is primarily used is MS Project. However more day-to-day aspects like status lists and actions that are being taken on open item are kept track of in MS Excel.

I am fortunate to be working on a team with a good project manager. As Dr. Simon says in his lecture, “A project manager goes around and does things for the people on his or her team in order to make their job easier and to facilitate what they can do.” This is exactly what my project manager does – and instead of asking things like, “Why is this not done yet?”, he instead asks, “What else do you need in order to complete this task?” I think that this is a good way to manage a team because it points out where the delays are specifically coming from.