Project Management Consulting Skills - How consultants manage projects and file structures

To succeed in business, you need to develop project management consulting skills. Learn how consultants manage projects and file structures in this video. In MBB consulting firms (McKinsey, BCG, Bain) and Big 4 firms (PwC, KPMG, Deloitte, EY), consultants follow best practices to organize their project files in shared folders such as Box, Dropbox or OneDrive. It is crucial to keep your projects and files organized to succeed in consulting. Learn project management fundamentals in this video with essential consulting skills. In the project management consulting business, it is key to use project management tools. For many things, project management software is not even required. This video is a project management tutorial, covering the project management 101. Become a consulting project management professional with this video.

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[devarshimehta]

Never believed that such work-related content would be so constructively presented on YouTube! Great work!

[zainnetworks]

Thank you for all your videos! More coffee breaks focusing on project management tips and tools would be great!

[akasheternal]

As a fellow consultant, I can personally vouch that these techniques work elegantly even in highly complex projects. All the best, Heinrich, for your future videos!

[matheusmascarenhas]

Folder organization is something I've struggled for years until I finally achieve a structure that is pretty much similar to what you described. The "Old" folder is really useful and it was something I also learned from the consulting life. I didn't knew the practice of vPresented and vSent, I'll incorporate it to my routine as well.

[louisenyaaa]

Just found you from TikTok and I am obsessed!! Thanks for the clear explanation

[bruno-umxk]

Hahaha. I name my files like this because a German teacher taught me to do this way. Everyone else believes I am crazy, but I love it. it's so practical and neat.

[billjennings]

Love your videos. But this video isn't about project management, this video is about file management. Project management is a completely different and far more detailed field which encompasses RAID management, stakeholder management, project/programme planning, mobilisation, invoicing, resource management, PMO to mention but a few. Keep up the great work Heinrich, I just wanted to clarify this with you.

[gustavklint]

Excellent tips. Another tip that I’d add would be to open all the documents, websites etc. ahead of the meeting.

You do not want to make searches in front of a client!

It’s unprofessional and risky, especially on a Mac that has an outstanding indexing (ten times better than windows).

Looking forward to your next vid.

Thanks!

[hidankakuzu]

I read somewhere in the comment about your accent being too German and Chinese at the same time. But I find it intriguing as this helps me to understand clients with different accents. Thank you.

[JoaoPedro-fjtd]

I totally appreciate and like your channel, Heinrich! Very well designed content with a profound sense of applied knowlegde. Thank you for everything. Keep up the great work!
Regards, João

[JESRobinson-yn]

Love this thank you. It would be great to have a week to week guide on project management, ie: how to keep track of tasks and activities, weekly project update slides internal and external, how to avoid project going off the rails, how to balance between project management, project deliver, overseeing juniors and checking their work etc

[sdarine]

My favorite videos are ones about communication and structuring the slides. Especially with examples of dos and donts the more the better. Thank you for the amazing content ☺️

[mujakirhussain]

Always good to see some great tips from FirmLearning !

[Knowledge_Nuggies]

Also thank God that Sharepoint finally reached the point where you can simultaneously read AND edit office documents, and thus can prevent at least a big portion of those .v1/2/3/... files. :-)

[editorcillo]

One very useful tip, learnt from COBOL/FORTRAN programming, is to numerate the folders in hundreds (00100, 00200, 00300). In the event of needing to insert an additional folder in your scheme, you can use a middle or near number (00150, 00101, 00105) depending on how related is the new folder to the older ones.

[zhiyihuang]

Awesome video! I'm studying PM at uni and I wish they taught this in class, would have better prepared me for work.

[LanasLessonsLearned]

We all know Heinrich was that consultant who did amazing on his projects and was somehow able to stay positive while maintaining work life balance.

[WRONDO]

Hi Heinrich, thank you for your video. I just re-organized my folders thanks to you haha

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[bruble]

Love your channel! I always either learn something valuable or get a confidence boost knowing that I have already been doing some of the best practices you have shared. Could you do videos on how to set up a PMO for multi-year, cross-functional, strategic initiatives? Thanks in advance 👏👏