Success is one step ahead of others. The success of the project manager is even more so.

Editor’s note: This article comes from WeChat public account “PM Circle” (ID: pm1178) author: ring.

Let ’s talk about a girl who is especially suitable for project management, Li Ziyi.

As a traditional Chinese food blogger, she has been followed by more than 7 million people on a foreign video platform.

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What is the concept of 7.35 million? It should be known that CNN, one of the most influential media in the United States and possibly one of the most influential media in the world, also has only 7.92 million fans on this video platform.

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Why is Li Zihuan hot all over the world? Part of the reason is that, unlike other “food bloggers”, the time span of her shooting will be very large and closer to the essence.

For example, the dishes made by ordinary people for soy sauce will start with “We already have soy sauce.”

The soy sauce dish made by Li Ziyi was taken from “How can we grow soy beans”.

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▲ Source: Li Zizhen video screenshot

From a few grains of soybeans to a can of soy sauce, it finally shows a good video with more than five million clicks. The whole process is like a great oneProject from nothing, from small to large.

Forcing family planning, Li Zizheng went out to work when he was only 14 years old, did not have higher education, and did not receive any professional video shooting training …

So, what does she rely on to ensure the quality of each video?

The answer is only three words: OCD . And look:

The Lanzhou Beef Noodles recorded in the “Lanzhou Beef Noodles” by Li Zihuan is known as “the living fossil of Chinese noodle culture”. In order to shoot this video, she took nearly two months to seek advice from a skilled teacher, and finally completed the video recording according to the “second fine” standard.

“Swing Sofa Bed” has been filmed for nearly five minutes, and more than 2,000 materials have been shot before and after. Heavy labor such as slicing wood and nailing piles have repeatedly caused wounds, and even the third finger of the left hand has been injured by dozens of pounds of stakes. However, due to taking into account the camera duties, in order to reduce the loss of the camera, regardless of the painful operation of the wound.

In a May 2017 thank you video, Li Zizhen wrote: “More than 20,000 pieces of material, switched back and forth 40,000 times, each piece of material takes 25 steps to calculate, and about 260 kilometers of walking. You can like it, but please give the most basic respect to the self-media people who work hard for content.

From these cases, it is not difficult to see that during the entire video production process, Li Ziyi adhered to the PDCA quality management process commonly used by project managers.

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▲ PDCA quality management flowchart

P (plan) : First, set goals, such as shooting a short video with Lanzhou beef noodles as the theme; then determine the guidelines and understand the method of beef noodles production through visits, surveys, etc .; and finally , It is planning the video production process.

D (execute) : Start shooting video. In the early days when there was no support from the team, Li Zizheng usually set the SLR aside, repeatedly debugged to find a good composition, and then went into the shooting screen to start doing things.

C (check) : Every time a shot is taken, Li Ziyi stopsCheck the shooting effect carefully to see if there are any problems with the composition, light and shadow.

A (Processing) : Once the results are not satisfactory, Li Ziyi will restart a new round of shooting. The second shot will definitely try to avoid the problems before.

“Lanzhou Ramen”, shot in late 2016, made Li Zizhen a little red. But behind the success is ten times the hard work.

The time required for pulling is very accurate. Usually the dough is discarded after the lens is adjusted. So Li Zizheng shot back and forth more than 20 times.

The gist of PDCA is in the loop . The four processes are not finished once, but are carried out repeatedly.

After one cycle is completed, some problems are solved, and the unresolved problems enter the next cycle, which rises in steps.

The same shot of Li Ziyi has taken back and forth more than 20 times, which is a typical cycle.

It is worth mentioning that later, her grandmother made the ravioli after eating the waste dough for half a month. Every day, there were all kinds of soups and ravioli. As a result, for a period of time, after seeing the ravioli, she felt very full.

This is not the answer: If you are desperate for success, you have to pay an extraordinary price.

As everyone knows, in order to keep the quality of the project under control, iterate continuously and keep improving, it is essential.

As a project manager, “obsessive-compulsive disorder” like Li Ziyi can’t come too much.

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I believe that many experienced project managers will feel this way: “Everything is a project”.

Every day activities such as eating and shopping, as well as independent management activities such as enterprise management and self-media entrepreneurship, all have the shadow of project management.

Almost everything follows the five essential processes of the project: Start, plan, execute, close, and maintain.

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Because of this, most successful entrepreneurs are excellent project managers.

They may not understand the concepts and terminology of project management, but they all have the essential qualities of a project manager: the pursuit of perfect “obsessive-compulsive disorder”, and the “executive power” of doing what they say.

But please do n’t get it wrong. The “obsessive-compulsive disorder” mentioned in this article is not a mental illness in psychiatry, but a metaphor for the unrelenting awareness of work.

Success is just one step ahead of others . The success of the project manager is even more so. Seeing more detailed than others, more thoughtful, and more “obsessive-compulsive” project managers deliver project results, often also more perfect!

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