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“The PM should be the most empowered employee in your company… Yes, even more than the CEO” This message was brought to you by The Project Management Institute
by coglethorpe 18y ago
“The PM should be the most empowered employee in your company… Yes, even more than the CEO”
This message was brought to you by The Project Management Institute.
I have yet to work with someone who is a PMP who has done anything but make a project worse. Maybe I've just had bad luck with that, but I'm not impressed with the job title so far.
- alex_c 18y agoI have had the good fortune to work with exactly one good project manager so far. He is good because he is intelligent enough to realize when he doesn't know something, careful with the team he builds, depends on what his team tells him (rather than ignoring it and going with gut instinct), and focused on processes only insofar as they result in a good product (meaning he approaches any "magic bullet" methodologies with skepticism but with the possibility that they might contain one or two good ideas that make sense in the specific circumstances of the project). That's really a list of what other project managers do wrong, though, than specifically what makes him valuable to the team.
- markm 18y agoI appreciate the kind words Alex.