Project Management

Project Management for Getting Organized

Or should that be Getting Organized for Project Management.

I made a friend who was training to be a project manager.  Now that interests me greatly, so that's why I made the friend.  But it turned out I had to help her understand project management.  That put me off.  I told her to read Robert Fritz book The Path of Least Resistance for Managers. That's a great book.  But I didn't get her into systems thinking or the Theory of Constraints, because I didn't think she could handle it. 

Best just to let some people chase academic training courses. 

That reminds me of another story of an old workplace colleague of mine.

A new guy was hired. Project Manager. He interviewed me about my view of how things were going.  He went off with a couple pages of notes.

Nothing happened.

Until problems came up.

I had to chase him for project management what he was supposed to be project managing as project manager.  He complained that 'things moved too fast around here' so his Project Management procedures were not up to speed. 

I was a manager but not a project manager.

But I taught him project management, and then things were better.

And I started him off with the 7 steps of organizing.  You can get them from the home page for How To Get Organized Now.