Love em' or hate 'em.....

[Zippy]

The problem is that it is a very difficult job to do well, and I'm afraid that most PMs give in to the temptation to run around harassing resources and not trying to smooth the path for them.
You need to be tough but personable (a truely rare combination) and you need to be able to keep calm (again, pretty rare) when it goes tits up. Most people seem to think that the mechanical approach (keeping the plan up to date, writing docs etc.) is the job.

[Tensai]

I'm glad to see that you as a new PM understand about the stakeholder management side of things, with that under your belt you will be fine.

Coming up to 10 years experience, but glad I come across as youthful

Most people seem to think that the mechanical approach (keeping the plan up to date, writing docs etc.) is the job.

Usually in big corps there is a team of PMO Nazis whose job it is to harrass the PMs to keep the bureaucratic stuff up to date. They're just one more group of people to keep happy.... I personally hate all that process, 90% of it is bulltulip and just slows things down.

[SallyAnne]

I woudl have liked to have voted for the

"usually f*ckign useless, but a good one is worth his weight in gold"

option.


I'm a developer.

[Tensai]

I woudl have liked to have voted for the "usually flipign useless, but a good one is worth his weight in gold" option.

Now there's a whole different discussion....