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3 Steps Towards Becoming An Agile Project Manager

April 15, 08 //
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Change is the norm. Change is happening fast. The projects you are managing are not your daddy’s projects. To be able to handle the ever morphing environment, you need to become agile, flexible as you have never been before. “”If you are talking about “agile project managers”, this would be the key aspect of my definition. A project manager that has a lot of mental models about projects available, and can adopt his mindset according the situation without problems, is what I call a true “agile” PM.” I wrote previously.

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Reality Refuses To Follow Your Plan

September 14, 07 //
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what Reality Refuses To Follow Your Plan

Project life can be quite frustrating when one day after another turns out not how you planned it. The software should be ready when you said it would. It has to. Otherwise you have people waiting, customers complaining and bosses getting annoyed. It is your reputation and ultimately your job on the line. If you just plan harder, more detailed, than the plan must be correct. Right? Of course not. I know, it is becoming some kind of mantra for me, but, yes, it is a shocker for a lot of people, you can’t force reality in sticking to your plan. Forget it. It is not going to happen. Ever. Because it seems to be a habit hard to break, a state of mind hard to get rid of, it is worth spending a little closer look into this matter. Why can’t we predict project future?
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