TRAITS OF A ‘HALO EFFECT’ PROJECT MANAGER (006)
Here’s more from the ‘Halo Effect PM’ series at PM4K.
DISCLAIMER: The characters (aka Project Managers) in this post are fictitious & any resemblance to persons living or dead is pure coincidental.
Here’s 5 more ways to identify Project Managers that know squat (nothing) about Project Management:
26. when they simply decide to change the baseline every time before submitting a progress report to Senior Management.
27. when they feel ‘Planning’ is equivalent to ‘Blasphemy’, because by planning one tries to foresee the future and take actions accordingly; which in their opinion is like playing God.
28. when the only strategy he/she thinks off is the strategy to CYA (Cover Your Ass).
29. when he/she delegates Stakeholder Management to others, just like Scope Definition or any other project task.
30. when he/she thinks he/she does not need to work if his/her Business Analyst is managing Scope effectively, Cost Consultant is managing Cost effectively & Scheduling Professional is managing Time effectively.
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TRAITS OF A ‘HALO EFFECT’ PROJECT MANAGER (005)
Thanks for the many comments on the ‘Halo Effect PM’ series. We’ve received requests from many of the regular PM4K readers to post more to the ‘Halo Effect PM’ series @ PM4K. So here goes.
DISCLAIMER: The characters (aka Project Managers) in this post are fictitious & any resemblance to persons living or dead is pure coincidental.
Here’s 5 more ways to identify Project Managers that know squat (nothing) about Project Management:
21. when ‘Progressive Elaboration’ is a concept that is totally unheard off.
22. when they’re oblivious to the concept of ‘Padding’ and yet all that they ever end up do is Padding.
23. when ‘Gold Plating’ is their strategy for customer satisfaction (assuming they’ve heard the term ‘Gold Plating’).
24. when they are from the school of thought that believes, BAD NEWS should be held onto until it turns into GOOD NEWS.
25. when they are from the school of thought that believes, BAD NEWS should be held onto until it turns into GOOD NEWS.
Keep your eyes open. You’ll spot one (Halo Effect Project Manager), when you see one
[Mathew@PM4K]
TRAITS OF A ‘HALO EFFECT’ PROJECT MANAGER (004)
Continuing with the ‘Halo Effect PM’ series @ PM4K, here’s 5 more ways to identify Project Managers that know squat (nothing) about Project Management:
16. ‘BRUSH IT UNDER THE CARPET’ seems to be his/her approach to finding and eliminating root causes of problems.
17. the only corrective action accordingly to him/her is to ask the management for more money/time.
18. the only stakeholder he/she knows should be kept happy is himself/herself.
19. majority of his/her attention and time goes in honing his/her ‘BLAME GAME’ skill.
20. the only quality he/she expects a Project Manager to have is SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE.
Keep your eyes open. You’ll spot one (Halo Effect Project Manager), when you see one
[Mathew@PM4K]
TRAITS OF A ‘HALO EFFECT’ PROJECT MANAGER (003)
Continuing with the ‘Halo Effect PM’ series @ PM4K, here’s 5 more ways to identify Project Managers that know squat (nothing) about Project Management:
11. he/she spends most of his/her time babysitting team members by constantly checking on them.
12. he/she blindly orders a 10% cut off any estimates provided.
13. he/she feels that the only human resource responsibility a Project Manager has is to give orders.
14. the only reward he/she can think off is for himself/herself.
15. according to him/her, Quality Management is only needed for manufacturing industries.
Keep your eyes open. You’ll spot one (Halo Effect Project Manager), when you see one
[Mathew@PM4K]
TRAITS OF A ‘HALO EFFECT’ PROJECT MANAGER (002)
Continuing with the ‘Halo Effects PM’ series @ PM4K, here’s 5 more ways to identify Project Managers that know squat (nothing) about Project Management:
6. when the only schedule tracking he/she does is tracking the time to go home.
7. when the approach followed by him/her in the event of a schedule/cost overrun is ‘IGNORANCE IS BLISS’.
8. when the only question he has for the project team is "What is the percent complete of the task/project?"
9. when he/she believes that Management Plans are only created by Project Managers who have nothing better to do.
10. when the only meeting he knows to conduct is the ‘GO AROUND THE ROOM’ type status meetings.
Keep your eyes open. You’ll spot one (Halo Effect Project Manager), when you see one
[Mathew@PM4K]
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