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Lessons Learned for Project Managers - Part XVIII
January 17, 2009 | Author: PM Hut | Filed under: Lessons Learned, Project Management Best Practices
Lessons Learned for Project Managers - Part XVIII (#18 in the series 128 Lessons Learned for Project Managers)
By Jerry Madden
- There are some small companies that make the same subsystem correctly every time because the same people do it. There are some large companies that can never make the same unit correctly every time because different people do the work each time. Heritage should be questioned when the people doing the work all have peach fuzz on their faces.
- Too many project managers think a spoken agreement carries the same weight as one put in writing. It doesn’t. People vanish and change positions. Important decisions must be documented.
- Make sure everyone knows what the requirements are and understands them. Much easier to say than do. You have to have the right people look at requirements. A bunch of managers and salesmen nodding agreement to requirements should not make you feel safe.
- Too many people at Headquarters believe the myth that you can reduce the food to the horse every day till you get a horse that requires no food. They try to do the same with projects, which eventually end up as dead as the horse.
- The project manager who is the smartest man on his project has done a lousy job of recruitment.
Reprinted with permission from NASA. This article first appeared in NASA’s ASK Magazine, the NASA source for Project Management and Engineering Excellence.
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