Skills for a PM

[suityou01]

I'm afraid the CIO has already questioned your work. I tried to cover for you but he made his mind up. Sorry.

Phew, thanks goodness that report was anonymous then.

[d000hg]

"Traction" appears to be a new buzzword

Well you don't want skid marks.

[GB9]

Phew, thanks goodness that report was anonymous then.

But everyone has told him it was you

[Antman]

Advantage GB9

[suityou01]

Advantage GB9

That's how it seems. For now. This actually happened to me once. And I did leave the report on the desk of the CIO, and the head of DP.

About 6 months later I found out that the CIO had fired everyone from the Programme manager down.

Projects that have that many slimy, greasy, incompetent, hand wringing, backstabbing @rseholes running the show end up like a shakespearean tragedy.

So in this moment as you are ushering me out of the door thinking phew, the danger's gone, know that everyone gets found out eventually. And when your project goes pop, I left months before.

[mudskipper]

To be clear, the LOUD pm is nothing to do with me or my projects (although she did regale me over lunch once with her views on lowlife leeching parasitic scum contractors). She is one of a huddle of PMs. I know not nor care not what they do, but the others generally manage to conduct whatever it is they do do without booming down the phone all day. She is solely responsible for me having got the ear bud from my headphones jammed in my ear canal, requiring five minutes of tweezering to remove.

The PM for my project is lovely - if I could take her with me to every future contract, I would. She adds real value and has never shouted or been unpleasant.

[suityou01]

To be clear, the LOUD pm is nothing to do with me or my projects (although she did regale me over lunch once with her views on lowlife leeching parasitic scum contractors). She is one of a huddle of PMs. I know not nor care not what they do, but the others generally manage to conduct whatever it is they do do without booming down the phone all day. She is solely responsible for me having got the ear bud from my headphones jammed in my ear canal, requiring five minutes of tweezering to remove.

The PM for my project is lovely - if I could take her with me to every future contract, I would. She and I spend all day nattering about our husbands and swapping knitting patterns

FTFY

[mudskipper]

FTFY

Actually we just had a nice half hour chat about cycling

Very little gossiping at clientCo. Until the noob started, I could go for days without a good natter.

[suityou01]

Actually we just had a nice half hour chat about cycling

Very little gossiping at clientCo. Until the noob started, I could go for days without a good natter.

Jeez you're a good'un.

[vetran]

There are plenty of good PM's but I rarely get to work with them.

The best I worked with was on a Data centre migration. I had a list of instructions even I could follow and a precise time slot. He talked politely, briefly and in plain English (American but we won't hold that against him) and he had anticipated most issues. Surprisingly that project was a massive success.

The worst are the ones that talk more than they listen or plan but the managers seem to like them.