Predictive (Traditional)
Iterative
Incremental
Adaptive (Agile)
Decide with customer and Project Management Team
Size of project, stakeholder decision and amount of risks can override your decision.
Decision Making Workflow)
Decision tolerances per decision maker
Define PM. Sponsor, Senior Management and 1 executive
What Reports, who and when?
What Artifacts, who and when?
What Meetings, who and when?
Virtual team Communications?
How to analyze current skills level of team?
What training needed for team to close skill gap?
Do we have training plan and schedule?
How to Measure training effectiveness?
How to analyze risks?
How to determine tasks and responsibilities?
How to define, manage costs and schedule?
How to define, plan scope and changes? If we are using agile methodologies, our plan will be Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog.
How to follow up project benefits?
How to apply quality standards in to our project?
Set team expected behaviors
Sharing and making knowledge visible
Helping each other is mandatory
Competition not allowed
Collaboration only technique used in conflict resolution
Purpose of project
Project Business Values
Key measurements for realizing those benefits
7 Deadly Sins of Project Managers
People all make mistakes. People can improve. People need to be told of their mistakes. Project managers are people too…
Project managers are sometimes no exception. Therefore those mistakes may become big news and can be – depending on the mistake – quite damaging and costly to the projects we are running.
That’s the reason of this post, to present to everybody the Seven Deadly Sins of Project Managers. In this blog post I will describe the typical sins I have seen Project Managers fall into.