How to get hands-on experience in project management?

Question

Project management

How to get hands-on project management experience? Even free of charge, i.e. here to have a project and work on it for free.
There is not very big, but experience in this area and the desire to upgrade skills.
For example, a designer can create random interfaces and stuff portfolios with them, programmers can create open source solutions or some small products/features for the people.
What if you need to get practice or at least see how others work when building a team, organizing workflows, planning, etc.?
Does anyone have a similar experience or point of view on how this can be implemented?

Answer 1

To start managing something, you first have to be managed. You get a job as a programmer/administrator/consultant on a project, go through the life cycle of the project and observe how everything works and what problems arise. On the next project (or the same one, if it is "eternal"), you begin to show yourself: you show the ability and willingness to solve problems, find solutions, talk with people - colleagues, management, customers, the ability to convince and inspire, the ability to anticipate the customer's desires and future problems etc. etc. Naturally, sooner or later you will start to "drag" projects, and after that they will appoint you as a manager even if you resist.
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Answer 2

Manage, there are a lot of things around us that need to be managed and optimized

Answer 3

Path to success:
0. Find a mentor who will train you. On the thematic forums on IT there are often topics about finding mentors where you can leave your post and hope for a result. You might get lucky.
1. Google
- Sukhari
- Empiricism
- The Deming Cycle
2. Lyrics
of the Book:
- The Black Book of the Manager (Slava Pankratov)
- 45 Manager Tattoos (Max Batyrev)
- The Goal (Eliyahu Goldrat)
- The Ideal Leader (Itzhak Adizes)
Films:
- I would like to sky (Georges Clooney)
- Walt Street (1987)
- The Social Network (pro facebook)
- Steve Jobs (with Ashton Kutcher)
- The Martian (how meth damon grew potatoes)
(watch in any order, but I recommend starting with me in the sky, then steve jobs and then the social network. when you watch, every 5 minutes ask yourself the question - why is what I watch useful to me as a manager. you will notice amazingly useful things)
2. We get the theory:
- Agile
- Kanban
- Scrum
- Lean Startup
- Lean Production
- PMBOK (6th edition) it’s necessary, it’s not there. it’s important to use this book as an example for action when it’s completely unclear what to do, and it’s better somehow than nothing, and not as a concrete plan and the only true method)
3. Look at YouTube:
- Effective communications (for example, old vids of Radislav Gandapas for 2000. in no case watch new ones, he merged)
- If Vova hasn't erased them yet, watch MS Project 2013 vids from Vladimir Ivanov
- Search torrents for all vids of Stratoplan, who recently moved his horses . There seems to be 500 roofing felts 900 hours of material. You can randomly turn it on when there is nothing to do to enlighten.
4. We watch and poke tools, look for some guides and life hacks on YouTube
- Gmail
- Google Calendar
- Word, Excel, Powerpoint (as well as everything the same only Google)
- Google Drive / Dropbox
- Trello
- Redmine
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Slack
- Hangouts/Skype/Join.me/Zoom
5. Find a vacancy for associate project manager or trainee project manager in some large gallery with at least 1000+ people. If not, junior project manager, assistant project manager or project manager assistant. If it still doesn’t work out, then know Scrum, learn it and watch facilitation videos. When you understand and learn how to facilitate, you start looking for a job as a Scrum Master.

Answer 4

I think that everything takes time, experience and desire. Managing a large project is no joke and I would start with something small. A novice in this field is unlikely to be able to take on a whole project. For example, I now work for a company that sells sweatshirts and hoodies and is responsible for promotion. Two of my colleagues are doing other duties (website, administration, rendering, etc.). Since the main thing in the project is promotion, it is desirable to promote it both on the network and outside it. Let's say I recently ordered 1500 of these tear- off business cards. The other day I already agreed with one content manager who will give us a good "boost" in promotion on Instagram and will only have to hang native advertising on the billboards of the capital for complete happiness.