* The difference between a project and an on-going operation-Project has a starting time, an ending time and be unique. If I buy brown paint to repaint my front door from Homedepot and do it during weekend. Plan to start on Sat 1PM and finish on Sun 5PM. This is a project. If I keep repaint front door every month as a maintainance. it becomes on-going operation.
* The challenge of managing projects-There are 4 listed. The most challenge item is lacking of authority from my experience. When PM should guide the time, he/she cannot force anyone to follow the schedule since there may be an authority for him/her. A software engineer may refuse to cooperate and PM cannot really do much thing like manager of software engineer can do.
* Project managers are industry dependent when project management is-PM is an idea how to manage time, resource and so on. But project managers are the one who need to have the sense and knowledge to "manage". Therefore he/she has to be industry-dependent. In real life, we see some "tech lead" or "project lead" on companies even for on-going operating. Those roles are created and tech skills are required. Depends on what kind of projects, there are 3 different areas, project management, technical and business ares. A good project manager needs to be fit in the 3 ares even with differnet weight of focus.
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