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What are the common mistakes of a Project Manager?

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Joefil Jocson CEO/President| JOCSON CONSTRUCTION & MANAGEMENT CORPORATION Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija, Philippines
Being a project manager poses a lot of tactfulness and challenges as you go along the way, right? Haven't you encountered-boos of some kind even if you are already a seasoned project manager? One thing for sure, and it is still true, no one is perfect after all.
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
Do not run faster than stakeholders when things go wrong....
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Joefil -

The more experience we gain, the more we need to ensure we don't let that experience cloud our judgment - confirmation bias being one example of this.

Kiron
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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
A common mistake is not capturing all the requirements, and this is largely done through identifying all the stakeholders.
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Anish Abraham Privacy Program Manager| University of Washington Auburn, Wa, United States
Don't wait until it's too late!! Monitor progress throughout the project, so you can detect and quickly deal with all performance issues.
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Not handling communications properly and taking things forgranted. This can go wrong anytime so in projects, Continious Control and Monitoring is Key.
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Karan Shah Bangalore, Karnataka, India
The biggest mistake I have seen is not learning from one's mistakes (or popular mistakes from others).

Everyone falls. What's important is what are you going to do to make sure you don't fall the same way again.
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Bill Morgan Project Manager| Epic Management L.P. Redlands, CA Moreno Valley, Ca, United States
Email burnout. LOL
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Keith Emery St. Louis, Mo, United States
Change management and scope creep remain a problem and if a PM is able to devote only part of their time to project management it is even more likely that requirements slip through the cracks or that changes aren't managed properly.
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Eric Simms Senior Program Manager Baltimore, Maryland, United States
One common mistake I see is when PMs simply follow a template they found somewhere, without first editing it to meet the specific needs of the project.
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Najam Mumtaz Retired Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Apart from the usual mistakes already mentioned one common mistake is not getting buy-in from team which escalates to a lack of ownership by team.
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