Ingredients for a Successful Project (Part 2)

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Ingredients for a Successful Project (Part 2)

by Matthew D. Gonzalez, MCSE, PMP

April 6, 2005


In Part I of Ingredients for a Successful Project, we visited such areas as accepting chaos, work authorization signings, splitting scope, picking your team and requesting any prequel history that my exist on the project. All of which are great methods of getting a technology project started. In Part II, we'll visit areas that will help a technology project manager keep a project on track toward the finish line!

 

Weekly Meetings

Let's start light…weekly meetings are probably something you already do with your team. However, if you're the TPM and you have a fellow business manager or business project manager who's helping you manage the project, keep your technology team meetings separate from your meetings with the business partner.

 

I've seen many developers clamp up in a meeting when they know the business partner is amongst the crowd.



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