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Working Off The Cuff - Lesson Learned

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Subscribe To Our Feed

I feel like I’ve been all over the place. As I was sitting down tonight to write up some posts for this blog, it occurred to me that I wasn’t listening to myself. I love to teach, but I don’t have much experience in teaching. I realized that someone coming here to this blog would be inundated with an enormous amount of information, without any logical order to it, and without an overall cohesive message.

This got me thinking. In my day job as a project manager, I would never dream of starting a project without having every duck in a row. This doesn’t mean that everything is perfect there, but it means that I have a better vision of where we should be, and I can adapt, correct, report and do all the project management tasks more efficiently.

So, what does this mean for you, and for this blog? Well, good things are coming in the near future. First, however, I need to stop for a few days and regroup. One of the big mistakes I’ve made here is that I failed to treat this blog as a project. Actually, the blog itself, since it should be around indefinitely, is not really a project. However, things like the case study being presented, and presenting the things you really need to know as a project manager, need to be treated as projects, and need to be planned and worked as a project. And that is exactly what I intend to do.

By this coming weekend, I will have a plan laid out for the case study. Not just the revised and update plan for it, but also my plan for reporting status and for using what I’m doing there as a teaching tool. I expect to have regular status reports to go along with the other posts of what I’m doing for this project.

Well, that’s all for now. The next post should be on Sunday, February 24, 2008, and should give you a much better picture. I’ll lay out everything related to initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and closing the project.

Cheers,

Chris

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