Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
One of the things I learned during my career was to name projects.
Give them an identity!
If you already give a name to your projects that name is: FABULOUS, ATTRACTIVE, SPECTACULAR, EXCITING (for yourself, for the team, for the customer)? Saving Changes...
Peter RapinSubject Matter Expect; Project Delivery| Independent ConsultantOntario, Canada
I've read most but not all comments however did not see a reference to the importance a name has to the project team or participants. We all like to be attached to something, it gives us a feeling of belonging and allows us to tell others what we are involved with. Not only do we put the project name on reports, we include the project name with our mail coordinates and, in some cases put it on t-shirts. No. 987234 does not do it but "X-Wing Fighter PMO" or "Apollo Project" is sure to motivate and make an impression.
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2 replies by Eduard Hernandez and Luis Branco
Feb 01, 2020 6:25 PM
Eduard Hernandez
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What a coincidence, a colleague of mine is running a project called precisely Apollo. Indeed, naming projects in an original manner makes them more engaging to the team. On the other hand, if there are too many projects with cryptic names, it can create confusion at some levels in the organization.
Feb 02, 2020 5:32 AM
Luis Branco
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Dear Peter
Thank you for participating in this reflexion and for your opinion
Interesting what you wrote: "We all like to be attached to something, it gives us a feeling of belonging and allows us to tell others what we are involved with"
Product Operations Program ManagerBarcelona, Cataluña, Spain
Jan 31, 2020 8:15 PM
Replying to Peter Rapin
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I've read most but not all comments however did not see a reference to the importance a name has to the project team or participants. We all like to be attached to something, it gives us a feeling of belonging and allows us to tell others what we are involved with. Not only do we put the project name on reports, we include the project name with our mail coordinates and, in some cases put it on t-shirts. No. 987234 does not do it but "X-Wing Fighter PMO" or "Apollo Project" is sure to motivate and make an impression.
What a coincidence, a colleague of mine is running a project called precisely Apollo. Indeed, naming projects in an original manner makes them more engaging to the team. On the other hand, if there are too many projects with cryptic names, it can create confusion at some levels in the organization.
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1 reply by Luis Branco
Feb 02, 2020 5:34 AM
Luis Branco
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Dear Eduard
Thank you for your opinion
What projects do we remember? :-)
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Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Jan 31, 2020 6:56 AM
Replying to Daire Guiney
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Dear Luis,
I remember one time a long time ago managing a project ironically called 'Project X' because it was and R&D project with not strict budget or deadline but was a make or break project for the organisation that I worked for at the time. At the time given this much latitude was exciting, interesting but also dangerous. The outcome saved the organisation to fight another day. Looking back I learnt more during that project then in any other period of my life so maybe I look at the name as being FABULOUS, ATTRACTIVE, SPECTACULAR, EXCITING.
Daire
Dear Daire
Thank you for your opinion
See how you remember :-) Saving Changes...
Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Jan 31, 2020 2:23 PM
Replying to Justus N
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lol some of them are creative, but for the most part its just the product we are trying to deliver
Dear Justos
Thank you for your opinion
And which ones do you remember? :-) Saving Changes...
Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Jan 31, 2020 2:26 PM
Replying to Nora Krmek, MBA, PMP
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Hi Luis,
I think that a good project name should be attached to the scope. What Deven Patel said in his comment resonates with me.
Dear Nora
Thank you for your opinion
Interesting what you wrote: "I think that a good project name should be attached to the scope" Saving Changes...
Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Jan 31, 2020 8:15 PM
Replying to Peter Rapin
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I've read most but not all comments however did not see a reference to the importance a name has to the project team or participants. We all like to be attached to something, it gives us a feeling of belonging and allows us to tell others what we are involved with. Not only do we put the project name on reports, we include the project name with our mail coordinates and, in some cases put it on t-shirts. No. 987234 does not do it but "X-Wing Fighter PMO" or "Apollo Project" is sure to motivate and make an impression.
Dear Peter
Thank you for participating in this reflexion and for your opinion
Interesting what you wrote: "We all like to be attached to something, it gives us a feeling of belonging and allows us to tell others what we are involved with" Saving Changes...
Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Feb 01, 2020 6:25 PM
Replying to Eduard Hernandez
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What a coincidence, a colleague of mine is running a project called precisely Apollo. Indeed, naming projects in an original manner makes them more engaging to the team. On the other hand, if there are too many projects with cryptic names, it can create confusion at some levels in the organization.
Dear Eduard
Thank you for your opinion
What projects do we remember? :-)
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1 reply by Eduard Hernandez
Feb 02, 2020 2:08 PM
Eduard Hernandez
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I can give you an example. For a project to scale up a few processes, we name it PEGASUS. It stood for Project to Enable a General Alignment of Scale-Up Systems. Creativity is a must to be able to find an acronym that summarizes what the project is about and yet has a catchy name.
Product Operations Program ManagerBarcelona, Cataluña, Spain
Feb 02, 2020 5:34 AM
Replying to Luis Branco
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Dear Eduard
Thank you for your opinion
What projects do we remember? :-)
I can give you an example. For a project to scale up a few processes, we name it PEGASUS. It stood for Project to Enable a General Alignment of Scale-Up Systems. Creativity is a must to be able to find an acronym that summarizes what the project is about and yet has a catchy name.
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1 reply by Luis Branco
Feb 23, 2020 4:25 AM
Luis Branco
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Dear Eduard
Thank you for sharing this situation with us
If you add a metaphor to the project name, it will surely be FABULOUS, ATTRACTIVE, SPECTACULAR, EXCITING
We agree with what you wrote: "Creativity is a must to be able to find an acronym that summarizes what the project is about and yet has a catchy name"
Use specific levels of words such as "development" or "suggestion." In addition, include business names such as "retail," "medical," and "finance."
Short and descriptive names are preferred.
Hi Luis,
In some cases, the customer's name is added directly to the project name.
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1 reply by Luis Branco
Feb 23, 2020 4:31 AM
Luis Branco
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Dear Takeshi
Thank you for sharing your opinion with us
If the project name is not FABULOUS, ATTRACTIVE, SPECTACULAR, EXCITING what should the project manager do? (in your opinion)
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Melissa AntonianoTechnical Project Manager| NokiaColorado Springs, CO, United States
hello - all of my projects are named. They are simply named after the name of the location that we are working. Numbers definitly don't work for me for project names, unless it's being referred to as an example "Phase 2".
For a while I worked on a project that the team started referring to as "The Project From Hell".
While it was the project from hell, I encouraged the team to remove that from our vernacular - as it reinforced the negativity that we were experiencing ...
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2 replies by Luis Branco and Melissa Antoniano
Feb 23, 2020 4:39 AM
Luis Branco
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Dear Melissa Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion
How do you do it "I encouraged the team to remove that from our vernacular - as it reinforced the negativity that we were experiencing"
of a project with the name: "" The Project From Hell "?
Feb 24, 2020 12:26 PM
Melissa Antoniano
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LOL. I used a couple of very old, very simple tricks. If they asked my a question about The Project From Hell, I'd tell them I didn't know what they were referring to.
And when I overhead them talking to others about The Project From Hell, I'd interrupt them and correct them by saying "you're really referring to the XYZ project, correct? Just for clarify for the listerner".
At the end of the project as we were presenting final documentation to our internal team I did acknowledge that it was The Project From Hell ... in that way, I was able to credit them for the crazy amounts of effort, stress and recognize how difficult the project was. Regards, Melissa
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