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GRRREAT Projects! Six Things to Get Right
I was having breakfast the other day with my 6-year-old daughter, and for some reason my mind went back to the old television commercials for Frosted Flakes, where Tony the Tiger would shout, “They’re Grrreat!” (courtesy of Thurl Ravenscroft, whose unmistakable deep voice also gave life to the song, “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch”).
And, in my own unmistakable sickness for equating everything to project management, I began to think of GRRREAT as an acronym for the six things that I felt make the difference between good projects and great (oops, grrreat!) projects.
Here they are… the seven things that project managers need to get right (and usually get wrong):
Get the GOALS Right
Albert Einstein once said, “Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.” It also seems, in my opinion, to characterize the way most projects are managed.
We can do all the planning in the world, but if our intended outcomes are not in line with the goals our key stakeholders are hoping to achieve, it is all for naught. Often, inadequate time (if any) is spent on ensuring that the primary stakeholders are aligned in what they are hoping to achieve from the project. In contrast, far too much time is spent on items that can usually wait for future releases, or that …
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