"Do my best" and Project Management

I agree with you. We must be very careful on applying a "do our best" attitude. Projects come with a list of requirements and changing any of the requirements in support of a best solution can only be done if approved by the stakeholders. We must be careful not to inject potential improvements at a time when implementing such improvements will most likely impact schedule and cost. I will always ask myself if there is a more efficient way of completing all processes associated with a project. Collecting lessons learned (positive and negative) is a great way to identify how to "do our best" next time. Is not accepting making a mistake, but rather, identifying things that worked really well for a given project or things that did not go well and should be avoided in future projects. My observation is that lessons learned tend to focus only on what went wrong and misses out on the great ideas that might be implemented so things go as well during the next project.

I'd put "Doing one's best" in the same bucket as "trying". As Master Yoda said, "Do or do not, there is no try."

I like that.

Nike says "Just do it!"

Dear Luis

i belive that is a good to say "Managing Projects is doing our best" but is depend on the person excitation and creativity.

for me on of the things that let me doing my best is to feel self satisfaction automatically let the projects, tasks Managing is doing our best


thanks again

Dear Adeel
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your opinion
In your opinion, the project managers we have to "do our best" or "do what is required"?

Dear Luis,

thank you for asking my opinion regard

i think the project mangers have to do their best to do "cover" the required..

i mean if you have requirements to do as a project manger you have to do your best to cover them in a successfully result as much as you can ... i can't say ever never because it is not logical sentence of course




Thanks
Adeil