Project Management

Please login or join to subscribe to this thread

What are your Project Management Lessons Learned of 2016?

linkedin twitter facebook   Consulting   Leadership   Lessons Learned   Requirements Management  
avatar
George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
What are your Project Management Lessons Learned of 2016?

(This is a personal question)
Sort By:
avatar
George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
Please share your personal Lessons Learned you got from your projects in 2016
avatar
Stéphane Parent Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada
Never underestimate people's ability to rattle you.
...
1 reply by Naomi Caietti
Dec 23, 2016 7:39 PM
Naomi Caietti
...
Self awareness will help you focus on your emotions to better understand your teams emotions and help focus their performance towards project success.
avatar
Thilo Wack Head of Existing Product and Test Lab| optimed Tholey-Hasborn, Germany
There is no such thing as stakeholder management. The only person you can ever hope to control is yourself and even that is a really hard thing...
...
2 replies by George Lewis and Naomi Caietti
Dec 23, 2016 7:13 PM
George Lewis
...
Thilo - Can you comment a bit more? sounds very interesting, but I would want to understand your approach...
Dec 23, 2016 7:35 PM
Naomi Caietti
...
Thilo: I get it; stakeholder expectations are what PM use their influence to manage. Projects are all about people, processes and politics. Building stakeholder relationships is what is worth managing and doing it well. Agree, focus on self awareness; emotional intelligence will be one of your most important assets for 2017.
avatar
George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
Dec 23, 2016 1:25 PM
Replying to Thilo Wack
...
There is no such thing as stakeholder management. The only person you can ever hope to control is yourself and even that is a really hard thing...
Thilo - Can you comment a bit more? sounds very interesting, but I would want to understand your approach...
avatar
Naomi Caietti Senior Project Manager | ePMO | Higher Education | Healthcare & IT| Linkedin.com/In/NaomiCaietti
Dec 23, 2016 1:25 PM
Replying to Thilo Wack
...
There is no such thing as stakeholder management. The only person you can ever hope to control is yourself and even that is a really hard thing...
Thilo: I get it; stakeholder expectations are what PM use their influence to manage. Projects are all about people, processes and politics. Building stakeholder relationships is what is worth managing and doing it well. Agree, focus on self awareness; emotional intelligence will be one of your most important assets for 2017.
avatar
Naomi Caietti Senior Project Manager | ePMO | Higher Education | Healthcare & IT| Linkedin.com/In/NaomiCaietti
Dec 23, 2016 8:08 AM
Replying to Stéphane Parent
...
Never underestimate people's ability to rattle you.
Self awareness will help you focus on your emotions to better understand your teams emotions and help focus their performance towards project success.
avatar
Anupam India
Keep calm and do your job
avatar
Thilo Wack Head of Existing Product and Test Lab| optimed Tholey-Hasborn, Germany
Naomi, George:

Generally you can try and manage relationships and expectations and the better your leadership qualities and your emotional intelligence the better the results for your project. But while influencing people may get them to adapt, it will not change them. That is what I learned the hard way this year: That people do not change and that in some instances your influence on people just is exactly zero. There is one stakeholder involved in a lot of my projects whose intervention in the past had caused multiple problems. This year I tried to proactively improve the relationship and for a very short while things seemed to work out, but then again there was a conflict between the project and his personal goals and Pooofff...So I realized that eventually I just can control myself, i.e. my actions and reactions towards stakeholders. And even there for deep running or emotionally laden conflicts controlling oneself is a challenge.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Thilo

Please login or join to reply

Content ID:
ADVERTISEMENTS

"When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall looking frantic."

- Steven Wright

ADVERTISEMENT

Sponsors







Vendor Events

See all Vendor Events

Newsletters

Jun 3: The Career Problem Facing New PMs
May 20: Your PM Career as a Project Life Cycle
May 13: The Big Lie After Layoffs

See all newsletters