4 devils in project management which we cant avoid.
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Business requirement :- They will never freeze and they change more times than womens’ mind.
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Matrix Organisation :- Project manager is happy, line manager is happy..reportee feels crappy
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Offshoring :- Its for operations mgmt. Which dumbo told them to apply to project mgmt. Anyone working as/worked as onsite co-ordinator can tell stories about it. Its not about indian offshoring quality but the very concept is not workable solution for projects atleast for tight-bound ones.
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Status reports:- Its better renamed as story reports. Status reports mislead managers. They are like the sweet-pill to the bitter audit-review reports. Status reports hide the facts that we are behind schedules.
We know the pitfalls but we still use it . Why? As someone gave me a tongue-in-cheek philosophy “Its better to sleep with known hooker than unknown wife”.
