Reality Project Management: Mastering the Skills for Survival

Would you feel a little uncomfortable in front of a similar panel of project coworkers and stakeholders who were ready to vote on your skills?  Would you be confident that you had used the correct strategies to succeed?  Would you remember the personal background of members of  this jury?  Do you understand why they would care?

More Similarities Between Survivor Participants and Project Managers Survivor Participants Project Managers Must make shelter out of whatever they can find Must make a team out of whatever they can find Must rescue cooking gear after flood Must rescue credibility after flood of change requests Hair loss from malnutrition  Hair loss (self-inflicted) from scope creep Chase wild pigs for food Chase stakeholders for approval Eat a lot of rice  Eat a lot of crow  Fish for supplemental food Fish for supplemental resources Left in the cold at night  Left in the cold after project post-mortem

We have learned a lot about workforce management from analyzing the Survivor II series, because people slip into the same interaction habits in all situations, no matter how contrived.  We saw this in previous articles in this series.