Saturday, December 04, 2010

Sorting out best advice for Project Management

Ever feel overwhelmed with advice?  Too many solutions, too much time is required?  Working in a paperwork adverse environment?  Need structure but unwilling management or stakeholders?   An environment that kills you with structure and administration, and you have no time for your own involvement to ensure the project is truly moving in the right direction and will meet its goals?

My recent attitude is developing the following as my baseline:
  • Do all that your environment requires, but use common sense to minimize your effort 
  • Simple is better than complex
  • Don't ever quit learning
  • Don't ever be satisfied with the status quo
  • Recognize that these may conflict among themselves, and then move on
  • And lastly, Laugh a little, or even a lot    

1 comment:

Josh said...

I wrote about this, agreeing with you on the fact that it's easy to get information overload these days.

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