Project Manager Etiquette

 

Workforce conditions will change.

We have been starting to read about it recently. The jobless recovery is starting to show signs of actually creating jobs. Where do jobs usually get created first? We all know the answer: Information Technology, as a practical matter. Companies, and now more than ever the Federal Government, seek computer, network and software people to fire up their business or help solve world peace issues through the use of technology. This all translates into demand for highly skilled IT technologists with project management experience.

But let's think back for a few minutes to those somber times when you couldn't find a project management position during the last two-plus years. Let's think back to the extraordinary pressure we have all been under and how the project team must have perceived that. We all did our share of setting unrealistic demands and not wanting to hear excuses for not meeting those demands. Remember when there were more jobs than IT people to fill them in 2000?

The Human Side of Project Management

It's time we all start improving consideration for our fellow project team members. Come on, we all know who we are and how we have been behaving. Project managers don't need to be intolerable, demanding, unrelenting, Theory X proponents to get things done. Remember when work and people you worked with…

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