Skills for a PM

[original PM]

oh don't even get me started....

current project (whcih has been going on for about 2 years now..) anyway deadlines for development and testing etc were set early on in the project

before any requirements were know.

so we are now in month 20 of the 24 month project and we are having to try and design and develop against incomplete requirements that keep changing to have an chance of htting the randonly selected deadline which has no relevance other than a senior exec has stated that is when she wants it by and she gets a warm fuzzy feeling if she gets it.. if she does not get it she will stamp her feet and cry like a petulant 10 year old.

What really feck's me off on this one tjpough is that would could have started design and development about a year ago and moved in a more agile fashion as new requirements were driven out.

Any way PM on this is Ok but senior exec is micromanaging and has no fookin clue about what we are doing.

[BrilloPad]

hmmm - essential skill for a PM?

fook up every project then bedwet on cuk about how its not your fault.

[original PM]

not really sure that comment will get any traction with your skill set in the presernt politcal climate with this application landscape unless you perpetuate a non linear solution with strongly defined endpoints.

[nottoobad]

Is this a skill?

1. To accept that everyone on the project knows much more than him/her about project management and will always tell him/her so.
2. He/she must be able to deliver the project with fewer people than required or committed.
3. Etc.

[Antman]

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.

Don't worry there's always Eastbourne.

[MarillionFan]

I think as a PM will be my next contract.

[mudskipper]

I think as a PM will be my next contract.

Loud and obnoxious? The gig's yours.

[suityou01]

I think as a PM will be my next contract.

I'd love to work for you MF.

[MarillionFan]

I'd love to work for you MF.

I wouldn't want to work for you.

[suityou01]

I wouldn't want to work for you.

Think about it. You kick ass PM, me kick ass BA.

We'd be like magnet and steel.