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Ten ways to fail at project management

Are you tired of being too succesful at project management? 

1. Don't give details

It’s important to give very telegraphic instructions in the tasks, so that your team has to guess what you really want.

2. Communicate on a need-to-know basis

And when your team asks questions about the project, don’t give clear answers. In fact, your collaborators don’t even need to know what the project is about and what you’re trying to accomplish. It’s not like it would help them do their job!

3. Be an optimist

Assume everything will happen as expected. Your planning is perfect, the way you created tasks exactly follows the way things should be. And what should be is definitely how it will be. Murphy’s Law does not apply to project management, after all.

4. Leave no margin for error in the timeline

No one ever gets sick, leaves the company or needs to take time off unexpectedly. And your team is so great that they are never late in their tasks, in fact nothing ever takes longer than planned with your team.

5. Take no suggestions from your team

It’s not like they know anything about the project, right? After all, you didn’t tell them anything about it.

6. Live in an ivory tower

Since you don’t need to inform your team and they have nothing of value to add to the project, no need to talk to them, or even sit in the same room with them.

7. Stick to project management

Managing a project is a very important task. This is why you should do nothing else in the team. There is no need to manage your teammates; this is why there is an HR department in your organization.

8. Rely on assumptions and your own guesswork

Only you know what the project needs. Don’t listen to any feedback from your team, simply take your guesswork for reality.

9. Rely only on your project management software to know how your project is going

There is nothing more to the project than the sum of its tasks. As we said earlier, HR can take care of the rest.

10. Believe in perfection

Once a project is completed, everything is finished and there will be no need to corrections and improvements. There are no such things as bugs Smile

  

Happy Easter eveyrone!

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About Karine

Since my graduation from Concordia University in 1998, I have worked in technical writing and later marketing at various technology-driven companies. Now Director or Marketing for Websystems, my goal is to achieve better visibility for the company and its product, AceProject. I believe that AceProject is a great, intuitive project management system and I want to convince as many people as possible! I am part of a passionate team that believes in doing the job right, with the customer in mind.
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