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What's the worst Project Manager Nightmare?

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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
What's the worst Project Manager Nightmare?
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Habib Alsaffar Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
I stand with you Salih, to be removed from a project.
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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
very interesting
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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
Mar 31, 2018 11:00 PM
Replying to Eric Simms
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To be set up as a scapegoat for failure. For example, by being put in charge of an important government project by executives who plan to sabotage it for personal reasons. The project is critical enough that its failure causes you to be dragged before a government committee to testify, with the likely result that you could be imprisoned and fined.
Eric - this sounds like a real nightmare, can anyone survive this? please share....
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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
I guess having the project fail is a little bit of a nightmare.
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Drake Settsu Project Manager / Blogger Hi, United States
The worst nightmare for a Project Manager would be the inability to regroup the team with a mdified project plan after a budget or scope change in the middle of a project that has been ordered to continue on and make it work.
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1 reply by George Lewis
Apr 01, 2018 9:42 AM
George Lewis
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Drake - yes this is very common issue. PM have to deal with this very common nightmare.
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Jessica McCurdy Crooks Old Harbour, St Catherine, Jamaica
You got them all right!
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1 reply by George Lewis
Apr 01, 2018 9:41 AM
George Lewis
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Jessica - what's your nightmare as PM?
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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
Apr 01, 2018 7:49 AM
Replying to Jessica McCurdy Crooks
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You got them all right!
Jessica - what's your nightmare as PM?
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George Lewis Program/Project Manager| DXC Technology Company Heredia, Costa Rica
Apr 01, 2018 6:00 AM
Replying to Drake Settsu
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The worst nightmare for a Project Manager would be the inability to regroup the team with a mdified project plan after a budget or scope change in the middle of a project that has been ordered to continue on and make it work.
Drake - yes this is very common issue. PM have to deal with this very common nightmare.
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
To act in any manner which causes you to have difficulty looking at yourself in the mirror...

Kiron
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1 reply by George Lewis
Apr 01, 2018 10:24 AM
George Lewis
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Kiron - that's a real nightmare...
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Jessica McCurdy Crooks Old Harbour, St Catherine, Jamaica
Being told that I had to cut my previously approved budget by 20%! We were already operating on the low end.
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1 reply by George Lewis
Apr 01, 2018 10:21 AM
George Lewis
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Jessica - that's a terrible situation because 20% is huge.

Question: Did they allow you to cut down the scope as well? Or to decrease the project timeline?
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