Project Management Pills – A Thousand ways to fail as a Project Manager

 

I´ve seen and read thousands of articles, posts, books and presentations in how to fail as a Project Manager… As I am one of them I´ve decided that it is time to collect tips and tricks and share with the community, here we go:

• Fail to address issues immediately - two members of your project team can't stand each other and cooperation is vital to the success of the project, find a way that they can work together professionally do not procrastinate it will just make the things worse.
• Reschedule too often - You can change due dates, assignments, and schedules, but be aware that there is a cost every time you make a change, and if you ask your team to keep up with too many changes you are risking to make mistakes, missed deadlines, confusion, and possibly stress team.
• Ignore quality to reach project milestones – Focus on complete the project on time and within budget but not on quality, having done that to each deliverable means that you will some up more quality problems in your project prior to delivery to the customer.
• Micromanaging isn't pretty- The most able managers know when to share responsibilities with others and to keep focused on the big picture.
• Risk Management – if you don’t manage project risks then you are the risk ! Don´t let it happen you will risk the project and your job
• Communication is bothering and annoying – believe me a thousand of issues could be avoided if you adopt a very effective communication in your project
• I always say yes to my customer- yes you can always say yes in a different ways but please think before you act understand the impacts in your project before to say yes and if you say yes tell him also how to do that.

The biggest challenge is your discipline to run the project in a continuous way not your technical expertise, think about that.