Melissa AntonianoTechnical Project Manager| NokiaColorado Springs, CO, United States
I am the project manager for several "delivery only" projects - whereby my team has a specific set of tasks and scope of work to create the deliverables for a customer.
On a regular basis, there is an expectation that I will also project manage deliverables that feed into my projects, but that I have no direct relationship with, performance goals of, nor influence on the performing team (.i.e. my project deliverables can't be completed without a software module from another team).
These side projects are often related to a much, much larger delivery for the company as opposed to at my granular level; they are not funded by the budget on my projects, and they are often times internal political struggles that take time away from my actual PM work.
What do others do in situations where the expectation is that because you are the PM of "a" project, you should also take on the role of PM for projects feeding your assigned projects?
Is it acceptable to push back and suggest appropriate staff to work on the side project?
Or because the output of another group is required for your deliverables, do you engage? Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
It is my life from long time ago....mainly when people see that the projects where you are involved are achieving the objectives. I will write what I do. If there is a project manager assigned to those projects my answer is No mainly because it is a matter of respect for the other project manager. No matter that, more of the times, my help is request as "advaisor". Then in this case after putting things clear about the scope of work and mainly to understand if the other project manager agree on that I say Yes. The key point is making visible the work you are doing because in lot of companies the project manager work lack of visibility. it seems we are phantoms. Saving Changes...
