Here's how you can effectively organize and manage your time as a self-employed software project manager.

One thing I found helpful is setting clear goals. Start by setting SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound). This clarity helps you focus on what truly matters and track your progress. For eg:-instead of saying "Improve project management skills," set a goal like "Complete a project management certification course by the end of Q3." Also set on Prioritizing tasks efficiently. I generally use the Eisenhower Matrix to categorize tasks based on urgency and importance: ? Urgent and Important: Do these tasks immediately. ? Important but Not Urgent: Schedule these tasks. ? Urgent but Not Important: Delegate if possible. ? Not Urgent and Not Important: Consider eliminating these tasks. This will help immensely.

I am genuinely fanboy for using tools in workplace. They are immensely helpful and add to the vision or grand scale of Project Management picture. Moreover- it just reduces the "errors" due to "impaired vision" judgements and "communication errors" between teams. Leverage tools like Jira, Asana, or Monday.com to manage your projects. These platforms allow you to track tasks, set deadlines, and collaborate with team members, ensuring that nothing falls through the cracks. It just makes a tedious project cycle going through multiple teams and multiple iteration a simple cycle. We can say that tools avoids us from "Reinventing the wheel".

Continuous improvement is essential for staying competitive and efficient. Here are some steps and tools I use to foster continuous improvement in my projects:- 1. Setting up KPIs and then revisiting them after every module to update based on our learnings till now. 2. Using the industry standard practices such as Six Sigma and CMMI definitely helps if the project scale is large will definitely helps. 3. I personally used Kanban to identify any issue and bottlenecks. This has helped me improved efficiency. 4. I personally use "Root Cause Analysis" for every issue or bugs and this keeps me and customer both happy. This is Old fashioned but it is really helpful.