Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
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Situation: You're tired of guiding new PMs with templates.
Kim Wiefling is a scrappy project manager - no doubt about it. Whether you're listening to a voice mail from her, reading an email she sent, or browsing through her book. She's the kind of person that calls it like it is - and that's what I like about her book, Scrappy Project Management.It's not about templates or process (not that I have anything against those). Each chapter focuses on a rookie mistake that every new PM makes before they have enough experience to set them straight. Here's a list of the chapter titles:
- Customer, what customer?
- If you don't know where you're going, any road will do.
- Communication, we've got real work to do!
- Hey, it wasn't me, it was the "others".
- Why plan, let's just get moving.
- Risk? What could possibly go wrong?
- Priority? Everything is #1!
- Change? What do you mean things have changed?
- Assumption is a mother.
- So, what were you expecting?
- Lessons not learned.
- Sure we appreciate you - didn't you get your paycheck?
I know, I know - but it's worth a shot...
Posted on: May 12, 2008 05:17 PM |
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