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Cut To The Chase
Methodologies are the road maps that help guide a project to its end result, but an overemphasis on forms, charts and checklists often distracts project managers and teams from the ultimate goal: the delivery of the project’s objectives. Sometimes, a methodology needs downsizing.
What happens when you walk into a conference room and see reams of paper covering the walls with project graphs and charts? In many cases, you can safely assume more time is being spent on generating those graphs and charts than on driving an initiative forward — and that this project may be faltering.
This was the scenario when I was interviewing to manage a project that had an unmovable year-end deadline. It was late August and the project was in distress. The project manager with the wall charts was not relating to his team, was not working with his supporting partners, and was not focused on the milestones ahead as well as the end goal.
In my experience, countless graphs and charts have been good indicators that a project is faltering and that more focus is being placed on the methodology rather than the objective. We are all asked to make presentations, participate in unrelated meetings, complete forms and checklists, etc. that may not have any direct impact on the progress of your project. There is no denying that one must do them, but what is most important is that we …
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