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In celebration of our March 16, 2015 Open House Event, we're giving away the farm! No, just kidding. We're just giving away copies of Dave Garrett's book (pictured left).
Three lucky winners will receive an autographed, hard copy of Dave Garrett's (co-founder of ProjectManagement.com) book Project Pain Reliever: A Just-In-Time Handbook for Anyone Managing Projects.
Dave's book is so awesome it's even being used in an MBA class at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Of course, Dave also makes all of his team members read the book as a condition of employment.
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Tom Young
Sr Project Manager| Orange County Transportation Authority
Orange, Ca, United States
My Question: What has been your most painful moment as a project manager?
Changing of approved direction mid stream from Business Owners.
Nitin Joshi
Project Manager| Between Jobs
Pawling, Ny, United States
What has been your most painful moment as a project manager?
The time I managed a year long project and brought it in on time, on budget and on functionality only to have it canceled because of a change in management!
The most painful moment, for me, is realizing the leadership team was just not passionate about the project but was fueling negativity about the project to the rest of the team.
Looking forward to receive the sign copy of “Project Pain Reliever” by Dave Garrett. Thank you for the new web site!!
Julio Arbizu
Director of PM/PMO| Informatica Especializada
Guatemala, Mixco, Guatemala
One of the most painful moment for me, was when my Project was cancelled. The cause was a poor performance of the software product.
 | cyntearle |
Most painful moment is scope creep with slow authorisation process.
Looking forward to reading this
Relieving the pain is a very good goal. Would love to receive a copy.
Laura Odenthal
PM III| Ahtna Facility Services inc.
Carmichael, Ca, United States
I 2nd Sandeep's comment, when a team fails to change or adjust, that is when the pain really hits!
Chris Lau
PM Consultant| OMDC
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hope to win! Good luck to all.
My biggest pain in PM was trying to appease everyone. We succeeded.
| Anonymous |
Keeping my fingers crossed to win this book.
Michael Waldron
Project Manager| Delta Point, LLC
Dayton, Oh, United States
Most painful moment as a project manager: When management refused to accept the scope change process required due to a change in requirements ... yet insisted on completing the requirements changes without accepting the change in project schedule or resource requirements.
Michelle McClinton
Sr Project Manager| CP Enterprise Consulting
Benton Harbor, Mi, United States
The most painful moments I've had as a project manager is getting my arms around the finances of a project. Understanding when the invoices come in and having a clear line of sight to who charges to my projects. Every organization I have been in has it's challenges around the finances.
Yes I too would love to win the book :-)
Bill Dorow
Senior IT Project Manager| Independent Contractor
Uniontown, Oh, United States
A very difficult team member was included in a layoff because of their curmudgeon (my best descriptive word) nature, only to be rehired and put back on the project one month later.
A very difficult situation became more difficult. I would like to win the book so see if that Q&A is in it.
Tara McKee
Project Manager| DLSG Enterprises
Mission Viejo, Ca, United States
Most Painful Moment was during a 3 generation PeopleSoft Custom Upgrade for a large company. It was a 3 year project and almost the entire team got laid off 3 months before the finish date.
Sonja Guthrie
IT Project Manager| Florida Lottery
Tallahassee, Fl, United States
Most painful moment: when the project sponsor hijacks the process and directs project staff to conduct activities that are not planned for, without informing the project manager.
Mark Warner
Project Manager| Warner Consulting Inc.
Shoreview, Mn, United States
"...most painful moment"?
When I finally realized that I had gone as far as I could and was not going to be successful in trying to educate a former employer of how to utilize the project manager role. As the first and only PM in that office I found myself wearing too many hats. Being held responsible for engineering, sales, and supervising installation, along with ongoing operational support, invoicing clients, and all of the project management duties from initiating to closing I was quickly burning out. At one point I had 26 projects on my plate with all of these focus areas to try and "manage". I was quickly burning out and with no end in sight.
It was a great catapult to leave permanent employment and jump into the independent Consulting career path.
Although back then it was painful and discouraging knowing that I was not able to perform at my best - now I wake up every morning eager to take on today's challenges.
Daniel Gahagan
Staff Vice President| General Dynamics Information Technology
Woodbridge, Va, United States
Most painful moment was the customer completely changing requirements 1/2 through the project
Gordon Suggs
Assistant Director of Application Services| Xavier University
Cincinnati, Oh, United States
Most painful moment is when you realize that the project does not make sense but the project sponsor tells you to proceed anyway.
One of my most painful moments was when at the end of a presentation of project scope, cost and duration of a huge effort, an executive said he read in a magazine that a project like this could be done in only three months... in some consulting company advert!
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