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The Project Manager brand called ?

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Sharing my Project Management adventures and some tips. I like to keep my articles brief and to the point. Project Management is an Art, Science, and Discipline. Just keep it simple and have fun!

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The brand you create will define your style of Project Management. You need to leave a mark on your projects. Stand out from the vanilla Project Managers.

My Project Manager brand is called "Bring it on".

Transparency and Clarity with a Bag of tricks to meet all the challenges is how I run my projects so "Bring it on".

  • Run a transparent project. Be prepared all the time to provide stakeholders the status of the projects. Always be the open Project Manager. Give the good and bad news.
  • Run your project with clarity. Define the deliverables making it crystal clear with your stakeholders what is being delivered. 
  • The bag of tricks is a metaphor for the tools, frameworks, methodologies, and approaches that will be used to run the projects. Have many options to make that project work. Go Hybrid or Hybrid-Plus. It's all about reaching into that bag and selecting the appropriate tricks to make the project a success.

 


Posted on: April 30, 2018 08:39 AM | Permalink

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Kevin Drake Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Bring it on Drake... Very good points and straight forward approach

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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
That person is great at writing backwards hehe.

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Drake Settsu Project Manager / Blogger Hi, United States
Thanks Kevin and Sante!

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Cibin Thomas Reston, Va, United States
Very catchy brand and open approach

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Drake Settsu Project Manager / Blogger Hi, United States
Thanks Cibin!

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Anish Abraham Privacy Program Manager| University of Washington Auburn, Wa, United States
Good points, Drake and thanks for sharing.

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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Good Point Drake - I would add: Always maintain Visibility of the major items like baselines.

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Drake Settsu Project Manager / Blogger Hi, United States
Thanks Anish and Rami!

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Eduin Fernando Valdes Alvarado Project Manager| F y F Fabricamos Futuro Villavicencio, Meta, Colombia
Thanks, very interesting article

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Drake Settsu Project Manager / Blogger Hi, United States
Thanks Eduin!

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Samuel Berroa de La Rosa Engineer.| Food processing / Construction Management Pa, United States
Good approach

Thank you...

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Drake Settsu Project Manager / Blogger Hi, United States
Thanks Samuel!

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Vincent Guerard Coach - Trainer - Speaker - Advisor| Freelance Mont-Royal, Quebec, Canada
Yes thanks Drake

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Drake Settsu Project Manager / Blogger Hi, United States
Thanks Vincent!

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