The Five Dumbest Things a Project Manager Can Say: Words That Always Come Back to Haunt Us

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Overview: The article follows a project and its Project manager(PM) through the lifecycle, and finds out some all too frequent mistakes and the consequences of them. The article, after recognizing that the front-end planning may have had a few flaws, dives into the work breakdown structure with a vengeance. It lists every little step that must be completed. Savvy project managers learn to manage people’s end results, not detailed To Do lists. Micromanagement is a killer on small projects and self-defeating on larger ones. Experienced PMs know that they almost never win when change control becomes a political battle, escalated to upper management. The PMs can develop the skills and techniques to start projects off on the right track and keep them there.

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Format: PDF | Size: 45KB | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 3

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