{"id":551,"date":"2021-09-15T09:54:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T07:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pmexperts.com\/pierwsze-kroki-w-project-management\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T11:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T09:45:12","slug":"first-steps-in-project-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmexperts.com\/en\/pierwsze-kroki-w-project-management\/","title":{"rendered":"First steps in project management"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How to become a project manager?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For&nbsp;my whole&nbsp;life, project management was a foreign topic to&nbsp;me. Until&nbsp;\u2013 &nbsp;starting a new job changed everything.&nbsp;<strong>Several months passed before I started managing company projects<\/strong>. During this period, I became familiar with the theory and learned about various training courses I&nbsp;had&nbsp;no&nbsp;idea about before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&nbsp;was introduced to the world of project management by&nbsp;an expert, Arkadiusz Urba\u0144ski, who, thanks to many years of experience as a project manager, showed me&nbsp;not&nbsp;only&nbsp;project management theory but&nbsp;also various examples illustrating how to apply the knowledge gained in everyday duties.&nbsp;<strong>Applying the topics I had learned in&nbsp;my everyday work turned out to be the best training.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Starting your first project can be a little daunting because of a lack of practical experience, but&nbsp;it is worth approaching it calmly, and&nbsp;also with patience and&nbsp;consistency. These&nbsp;are&nbsp;key throughout the whole process. There&nbsp;is&nbsp;no&nbsp;room for fear here, because&nbsp;even mistakes can be treated as something positive \u2013&nbsp;a&nbsp;lesson for the future.&nbsp;<strong>After all, every experienced project manager was a beginner once.<\/strong>&nbsp;When starting my&nbsp;first project, I&nbsp;was also a bit lost \u2013 I&nbsp;didn't really know where&nbsp;to&nbsp;start and&nbsp;what exactly I was supposed to do. Fortunately, I&nbsp;was surrounded by supportive colleagues. I&nbsp;was guided step by&nbsp;step, which made it much easier to take on this challenge, and whenever I&nbsp;had doubts I&nbsp;could ask questions or&nbsp;ask for help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Having overcome my fear and&nbsp;uncertainty back then, today I&nbsp;see projects as an interesting, exciting challenge.<\/strong>&nbsp;Like every beginner project manager, I still have better and worse moments and occasionally lose track of some tasks. I honestly record both my failures and my successes. I am currently responsible for two ongoing projects and keep working to make them a success.&nbsp;<strong>What&nbsp;I&nbsp;have learned is&nbsp;that&nbsp;you&nbsp;should never give up<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 it is worth remembering this in&nbsp;everything we&nbsp;undertake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although at first I didn't know whether\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pmexperts.com\/en\/training\/\" title=\"\">project management<\/a> was an area where I would feel confident, I can now honestly say that it is something I enjoy doing and want to devote more of my working life to in the future. Maybe even my entire career? We will see.\u00a0<strong>Through my current experiences, I have learned that failures can often teach us the most, so there is no point in being afraid of them.<\/strong>\u00a0They can make us better at what we do. You just need to find your way.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Przez ca\u0142e moje \u017cycie temat zarz\u0105dzania projektami by\u0142 mi obcy. Do czasu &#8211;  rozpocz\u0119cie nowej pracy wszystko zmieni\u0142o. Zanim rozpocz\u0119\u0142am zarz\u0105dzanie firmowymi projektami min\u0119\u0142o kilka miesi\u0119cy. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23],"tags":[90,91,92,33,62],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strefa-wiedzy","category-zarzadzanie-projektami-po-godzinach","tag-jak-zostac-kierownikiem-projektow","tag-poczatkujacy-project-manager","tag-podstawy-zarzadzania-projektami","tag-project-management","tag-project-manager"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmexperts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmexperts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmexperts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmexperts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmexperts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pmexperts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9124,"href":"https:\/\/pmexperts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/9124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmexperts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmexperts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmexperts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmexperts.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}