Meet Joven Chico.

Entrepeneur by ❤ Heart

At a very young age of 7, he actually earned already his first few coins by selling recycled envelopes to his classmates in the grade school. In high school, he was successfully able to lead and publish a magazine-book for his class section. In college, he did online selling on eBay and faithfully earned stars. From his savings, he bought his own camera and phone and started travel blogging. Travel blogging opened oportunities for him to meet seasoned bloggers and entrepreneurs, and learned from them--aside from extra bucks earned from AdSense.

Projects to Profits

When Joven started doing jobs and freelance works in the early 2010’s, all he thought that matters was technical knowledge. He once believed that knowing all the technical stuff—from the software that he used to do repetitive deliverables to the mental computation of some formulas—will always lead to project success.

But it wasn’t always the case. It’s not even 1 percent.

What makes a product or project successful?

Technical knowledge is a big part of project success, but without people management, there’s a big chance of failure. Project success is directly proportional with the success rate of you managing your stakeholders, both internal and external. Project management is 80% communication. That is what Joven realized when he was certified as PMP and took on a bigger challenging role of managing building projects in Palau. He applied the principles he learned in project management and in return, the projects he lead were successful, giving the company an approximately 30% profit.

Project development cycle, stakeholder engagement, risk management, product marketing and communication styles—they all add up to success. Every project and every product is different. There is no single formula but we can create a concoction that will make the project—your project—successful.