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Question 1

Who are we?

Our Mission

Making Experts Accessible to All

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Xpert - is a social learning app to help you learn from the best. We are not your regular online course, but rather an experience that is beyond regular classes, lectures & assignments. We have India's top experts across each profession share their experiences, opinions, techniques & advice accumulated over the lifetime of their careers.

Question 2

What is Project Management?

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Project Management is a process that involves attainment of certain goals and specified criterias under a specific time period assisted by a team of people. It mainly relates to the completion of a particular project under specific constraints and terms and conditions. Project Management as a process involves right blend of skills, knowledge, efficiency, methods and experiences to achieve the set guidelines of a task. Each project contains within itself three stages- the start, the mid-process and the end. For any project to be successfully completed, one must efficiently work through all these three stages.

Question 3

What are the qualities of a Project Manager?

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A Project Manager heads and manages the whole project from scratch till its end. This means that it is essential for a project manager to have diverse qualities to ensure all levels of works being efficiently performed. Not only must he/she be self- discipline but he/she should be very efficient in time-management. For any successful and good project manager, it is important to complete the required project thunder the scheduled time frame. :

Question 4

Who are the top Project Managers?

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Sidhartha Magu (Microsoft), Hanmanth Rao(SBI), Kunal Jhaveri (Wipro), Adil Rafi (Genpact), Ravi K(Accenture), Anupam Chakraborty (HSBC), Mohit Saluja(CBRE), Bablu Mishra(HUL), Debodatta Mishra (ISRO), Akshata Sirsikar(Oneplus), Akansha Bajaj(IndusInd Bank), Munish Nanda( Josh talks), Deepika Sathawane(Capgemini),Sonali Singh(Myntra)

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Operations keeps the lights on, strategy provides a light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the train engine that moves the organization forward.

-Joy Gumz, Director of Project Auditors
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Project management is like juggling three balls – time, cost and quality. Program management is like a troupe of circus performers standing in a circle, each juggling three balls and swapping balls from time to time.

-G. Reiss, Project Management Mentor
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Project management can be defined as a way of developing structure in a complex project, where the independent variables of time, cost, resources and human behavior come together.

-Rory Burke, Msc in Project Management
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Being a Project Manager is like being an artist, you have the different colored process streams combining into a work of art

-Greg Cimmarrusti, ERP Project Manager

Question 5

How can you start as a Project Manager?

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Since Project Management involves planning, executing and completing a project, it even encompasses within itself diverse functions of teamwork and great leadership skills. The foremost requirement to become a project manager is to have a degree in the same course. This will help you gain an expertise over that subject and field as a whole. Besides attaining a degree in project management, one must also intern into some ongoing projects so as to gain an experiential and real expertise of handling the projects and all the related obstacles that come with it. Every project is made up of people. So it is very important to gain required people related skills to ace the career choice. For this, one can involve himself/herself into various courses and certifications that majorly deal with such skills. Additionally, there are various project management tools that help the aspiring professionals in acing those skills.

Question 6

What are the challenges of being a Project Manager?

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There are various obstacles and challenges of being a project manager. The foremost being that there can be very poorly defined goals which can lead to the project not being completed on time. You might be a very dedicated person for the task but it is also necessary to have a good team to help you complete the task. There can be poor team skills which can create a hindrance in the completion of project. Additionally, there can be inadequate or poor communication skills which can result in the project not being able to meet its specific guidelines. Risk assesment, Resource depletion, great expectations, lack of accountability, lack of stakeholder engagement and impossible deadlines are some of the other major and most common obstacles that any project manager faces during the time of the project.

Question 7

How can you learn
Project Management at Xpert?

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Xpert provides a very convenient online platform for all the aspiring Project Management Professionals. It allows the users to connect with the experts of a particular field on a one to one basis. Since Xpert fully focuses on Experiential learning, it allows the users to gain knowledge out of the expert's real life experiences, struggles and their life journey. When a user gets to know of all the struggles through his idol, it creates a different level of motivation and aspiration for that user and Xpert aims at providing the same kind of experience and motivation to each of its users so that they are motivated and guided in a way that brings them a step closer to their dreams. Fully confident on delivering the right kind of information to the right kind of users, Xpert has been a trustworthy platform for all its users.