3 Tips to Create Your Sustainable PM Career
Johanna Rothman, known as the "Pragmatic Manager," offers frank advice for your challenging problems. She consults with leaders and teams to help them learn about practical and possible options. They can then decide how to adapt their product development. Her most recent book is "Project Lifecycles: How to Reduce Risks, Release Successful Products, and Increase Agility." See www.jrothman.com for all her books.
Do you feel as if the world is in flux and you’re not sure where you fit? Many of my project and program management colleagues do. With the advent of artificial intelligence and the uncertainty in the world—and in many organizations—you might be uneasy about how to create a sustainable project or program management career.
Too many project managers tell me they are supposed to focus on the tooling—whether that’s the team’s board, tracking tools or the product roadmap—and “just” deliver. Delivering requires a team’s collaboration, so none of us can “just” make that happen.
The fastest way to “just” deliver is to actively manage risks and be ready to manage problems that arise. That means effective project and program managers need to encourage receiving bad news so they can act. But if people worry about how you’ll react? They will not offer the bad news.
Instead, we can actively ask for bad news. That’s a good first step, but people won’t offer bad news unless we create relationships inside the project and the program before we need them.
And the best part? We can do this by focusing more on being human and adding value that AI will never be able to add.
That’s why I like to start with encouraging people to bring me bad news.
1. Encourage Bad News …
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