Being a Project Manager

I am a software project manager at a booming Fortune 500 company having just been promoted from a position as a software engineer. I have been assigned to an on-going software development project because the previous manager left the company to take a job with one of our competitors. After meeting with my new team and reading the project documentation, I have an overall picture of the problem that my boss wants me to solve: we …

…is our opportunity to reflect on the experience of the group project. We will explain what we have achieved, how we achieved it, and what lessons we have learned on the way. We will explain about the problems we encountered and also explain how we surmounted or evaded them. Altogether, my first assignment as a project manager will allow me to learn a great deal about software engineering and prepare me for future software developments.