Saturday, October 24, 2009

Common Errors for a project manager

If you have ever done be a part of a project team, do you experience any kind of scenarios below? If so, I am with you. However, I do not think these are all project manager’s fault.

  1. Focusing on asking for percent complete
  2. Holding "go around the room" type status meetings
  3. Spending host of your time babysitting team members by constantly checking on them
  4. Asking to cut lo percent off the estimate
  5. Not attempting to obtain finalized requirements
  6. Not getting real resource commitments
  7. Not having a reward system
  8. Not focusing on quality
  9. Not having a control system
  10. Not having management plans
  11. Not measuring against the project management plan, or even creating metrics
  12. Not spending time finding and eliminating root causes of problems or deviations
  13. Not implementing corrective action to keep the project in line with the project management plan
  14. Not reevaluating the effectiveness of the project management plan
  15. Not reevaluating the accuracy or completeness of schedule, cost, scope
    Ignoring resource managers' need to have their people do their own departments' work
  16. Not realizing the project can affect the reputation of team members
  17. Not realizing the project manager has some human resource responsibilities to the project team, such as project job descriptions and adding letters of recommendation to team members' human resource files
  18. Blaming unrealistic schedules on management instead of realizing they are the project manager's responsibility

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