Project's fail for a variety of reasons, most of which have been repeatedly cussed and discussed. I suspect some project's fail because the project and the project manager weren't a good match. What's the criteria (checklist) that helps ensure the project and the project manager are well matched? Saving Changes...
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Mark Price PerryBusiness Driven PMO Evangelist| BOT InternationalOrlando, Fl, United States
Dear Dave, you raise an excellent topic. While tools, training, and of course processes all help to ensure project success, a good fit between project manager and project is also important. We see a few orgnizations use checklists at time of project selection to confirm project manager and project fit. Typically, the checklists spots such things as technical skill, areas of domain knowledge, people management considerations, and past track record of the project manager. For people management reasons, this kind of checklist is usually confined to management, need to know, only. It also can serve to direct training and professional development within the organization. Regards. -- Mark Perry, VP of Customer Care, BOT International Saving Changes...
Hello Mark, can you please inform me about which companies use such checklists? Do you have more details, like for instance:
- whether the checklists are based on PMBOK?
- do you have checklists available?
I am trying to find a way to match project managers with projects and am looking for (best) practices. Kind regards, Ivar Saving Changes...
Mark Price PerryBusiness Driven PMO Evangelist| BOT InternationalOrlando, Fl, United States
Hi Ivar, just about all of the IT departments, PMOs, and project organizations we work with use templates, forms, and checklists throughout the project management process to provide guidance and to institutionalize best practice knowledge (such as PMBOK and others), skills, and capabilities. Checklists can also be a good technique and tool for acting upon lessons learned feedback as often times an observed project difficulty or recommended improvement suggestion may not be addressable or actionable in any other way. As an example, for a complete list of PMBOK and SDLC project management templates, forms, and checklists, have a look at the following: http://www.botinternational.com/project_management_templates.htm Hope this helps. Cheers. -- Mark Perry, VP of Customer Care, BOT International Saving Changes...
