When you’re putting together a project there will come a time when you need to file a report. But how do you do it… and how do you do it well?
I’m reminded of a story once where I worked on a project (as an employee who participated, not as the project manager). The project manager had to create a weekly report that estimated the time we spent on the project. They had each employee estimate the number of hours we worked on the project. Then they took those numbers and (fully admitted to us) padded the numbers to bring them in line with expectations (I guess we were too efficient or the project manager needed to justify their budget). It made me look at project management reporting with disdain so I’ve revised how I manage projects ever since.
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Remember in high school math class when the teacher would write an equation on the board and then tell us to “solve for X”? To solve for X students would have to work out the entire equation with X to the side and then get to the point where it became obvious.
Example: 2X+6 = 30
(30 – 6)/2 = X/2
(24)/2 = X/2
Therefore: X = 12.
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Funny thing is we all have a job… and whether we are landscaping, building a website or filing taxes… the job can get redundant or boring.
However, there are always those projects that are stimulating and exciting – and that is typically when it is all about the love.
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The following are true stories of project management gone terribly wrong. Only the details and the names have been changed to protect the guilty. These stories were collected from colleagues who work on projects in large and small organizations in varying industries. Click here to read more »
