Talk about our Errors in Project Management. What about your biggest error as PM?
DORA LUZ MejiaCEO| IT ExploreEnvigado, Antioquia, Colombia
Talk about being good at maybe is easier for professionals, but what about talking about our errors as Project Managers and share some experiences that make our profession memorable becuase the learning and experiences we are achieving.
I am going always to remember that I was a new manager and I allow a person to work under my supervision without finishing the formal and legal hiring. One day the person call me and told she was in the hospital because an accident. I was really affraid of the consecuences, fortunatly the accident was out of work and the girld has the healty payments and was attended.
i have learnt that I need to finish all the formal hiring procedures before making people work for the projects and do not allow to get information about the project and organization before the hiring. Saving Changes...
Anton OosthuizenSenior Business Analyst / Project Manager| Self EmployedPretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
The biggest mistake I ever made was to allow 'management' to tell me how to do my job.
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1 reply by DORA LUZ Mejia
Sep 03, 2019 7:41 AM
DORA LUZ Mejia
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Thanks for sharing. PM invited to soeak up and to promote speaking up in theborganizations
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Thomas WalentaGlobal Project Economy ExpertHackenheim, Germany
Trusting your sponsor.
You have to treat your sponsor as a key stakeholder with different goals and interest as your own. Understand and influence.
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2 replies by Anton Belonovich and DORA LUZ Mejia
Sep 08, 2019 1:55 PM
DORA LUZ Mejia
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thanks Tomas. As well aligned with the sponsor to get the best for the project
Sep 19, 2019 5:31 AM
Anton Belonovich
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Thanks! Could you please elaborate? How can goals of a stakeholder and a project manager differ? I thought they are both interested in project success.
Focusing on the process more than the people - that's a sin I repeated multiple times earlier in my career and it took a lot of coaching for me to get over that!
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1 reply by Anton Belonovich
Sep 19, 2019 5:32 AM
Anton Belonovich
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Thanks Kiron! Which type of coaching helped you the most?
Over the years, I would say trusting people implicitly. Maybe it's because I'm much older and perhsps a little wiser, but something that is very important is to try to understand where others are really coming from. A "what's in it for me" approach. Everyone has their own agenda, and I've seen projects destroyed because of that. It was hard to fathom, and sometimes still. Whether it be ignorance or arrogance, people are a curious bunch.
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1 reply by Riad Alhammoud
Sep 02, 2019 1:01 PM
Riad Alhammoud
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Nice topic. Being hesitate to have a strong action against some employees that are intending to resist the instructions in purpose as there was no support from the PMO.
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Riad AlhammoudProject management| LanganAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Sep 02, 2019 8:07 AM
Replying to Steve Ratkaj
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Over the years, I would say trusting people implicitly. Maybe it's because I'm much older and perhsps a little wiser, but something that is very important is to try to understand where others are really coming from. A "what's in it for me" approach. Everyone has their own agenda, and I've seen projects destroyed because of that. It was hard to fathom, and sometimes still. Whether it be ignorance or arrogance, people are a curious bunch.
Nice topic. Being hesitate to have a strong action against some employees that are intending to resist the instructions in purpose as there was no support from the PMO.
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1 reply by DORA LUZ Mejia
Sep 03, 2019 7:43 AM
DORA LUZ Mejia
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Thanks for sharing. Consideribg change management and human beings
Interesting thread thanks for bringing this up Dora! Mine would be being super laid back did not get me far in early days. Throughout the years in different organisations I felt it depends very much on how working culture with more gearing towards promoting & practising speak up and stand up which is great! Saving Changes...
Karl TwortSenior Project Manager| Fresh EggUnited Kingdom
For me early on it was complacency. It's very easy to fall into a trap where your controls and monitoring are going so well, that you get complacent and let the basics slip. Even the smallest project management tasks and activities all contribute to not only the success, but also identifying the risks and failures of a project as soon as possible.
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1 reply by DORA LUZ Mejia
Sep 08, 2019 1:54 PM
DORA LUZ Mejia
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thanks karl. I got your point as , being distracted by metrics , monitoring and control process and not really mitigating risk
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DORA LUZ MejiaCEO| IT ExploreEnvigado, Antioquia, Colombia
Sep 02, 2019 12:31 AM
Replying to Anton Oosthuizen
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The biggest mistake I ever made was to allow 'management' to tell me how to do my job.
Thanks for sharing. PM invited to soeak up and to promote speaking up in theborganizations Saving Changes...
DORA LUZ MejiaCEO| IT ExploreEnvigado, Antioquia, Colombia
Sep 03, 2019 12:48 AM
Replying to Rami Kaibni
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Focusing on the Project, Process, Progress, Clients and sometimes overlooking to focus on the people who actually make this happen.
Thanks for sharing. People first then the process Saving Changes...
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