Rebecca BraglioCommunity Engagement Specialist II| Project Management InstituteNewtown Square, Pa, United States
If you attended the War Stories session (or if you didn't get to but wanted to), please introduce yourself by replying to this post and share your war story!
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Marcos AriasManaging Partner| CX MDDunwoody, Ga, United States
I led the session for PM Communication War Stories at Congress and was delighted by the response and questions from the audience and those who attended virtually. My sincerest thanks for your feedback.
With that said, I have a doozie communication war story that happened today. We have a Corporate Project Tracker that we use for managing our IT projects. We have a project that we peeled off of another major project so that we could focus and execute in faster time. We established a sub-project, but failed to associate this child project to the parent. We did the scope document and business requirements and found that we had no money and no association to the parent. ARGH!
Initially, we thought we were good since we have a project manager who knows this process backwards and forwards, but the process changed and our steps resulted in no association between child and parent projects. We had to tear down the current sub-project and build a new child project per instructions from another process guru. This will ensure funding and proper association.
Bottom line is we trusted our project manager's understanding of the process while not double checking that the process had changed. Shame on us. The good news is that we are early in the process so the damage was minimal and we were able to re-use all the documents. The loss was only a little bit of our precious time for re-construction of a new sub-project.
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Andy JordanPresident| Roffensian Consulting S.A.Cherry Grove, AB, Canada
Great example of the dangers of assumptions Marcos! In the long run though, that may end up being a valuable investment by the organisation - a relatively low cost lesson that everyone involved will remember for a long time to come.
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