Comments on: A Successful Manager But Never A Successful Project? http://pmtoolsthatwork.com/a-successful-manager-but-never-a-successful-project/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-successful-manager-but-never-a-successful-project Getting to On-Time Software Projects Fri, 18 May 2012 16:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Bruce Benson http://pmtoolsthatwork.com/a-successful-manager-but-never-a-successful-project/#comment-533 Bruce Benson Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:27:02 +0000 http://pmtoolsthatwork.com/?p=228#comment-533 Brett, Disgruntled by success? They sometimes are when the success is in spite of them: http://pmtoolsthatwork.com/leap-to-exceptional-shorter-than-we-think/ Victim of your success: Agreed. My solution: http://pmtoolsthatwork.com/successful-projects-are-boring/ Regards, Bruce Brett,

Disgruntled by success? They sometimes are when the success is in spite of them:
http://pmtoolsthatwork.com/leap-to-exceptional-shorter-than-we-think/

Victim of your success: Agreed. My solution:
http://pmtoolsthatwork.com/successful-projects-are-boring/

Regards,

Bruce

]]> By: Brett Ossman http://pmtoolsthatwork.com/a-successful-manager-but-never-a-successful-project/#comment-526 Brett Ossman Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:58:30 +0000 http://pmtoolsthatwork.com/?p=228#comment-526 I haven't seen that management is disgruntled by success, more that it is ignored or you are, because they are putting out fires everywhere else. You are almost a victim of your success, because you are not on the radar. Problems are on the radar. I haven’t seen that management is disgruntled by success, more that it is ignored or you are, because they are putting out fires everywhere else.

You are almost a victim of your success, because you are not on the radar. Problems are on the radar.

]]> By: Bruce Benson http://pmtoolsthatwork.com/a-successful-manager-but-never-a-successful-project/#comment-524 Bruce Benson Thu, 05 Aug 2010 19:02:47 +0000 http://pmtoolsthatwork.com/?p=228#comment-524 Survivor, Aah, the days where senior management is suppose to work at a strategic arms length and stay out of the day to day activities is long gone. I've had VPs in a Fortune 50 company give me the status of individual software defects (and they had upwards to 2000 software engineers working for them!). This was to show that they were "engaged" with the work being done. It would have been better if they worked on a strategy that helped us avoid making promises we couldn't keep. I think it is telling that folks like Warren Buffet do not have their days taken up by meetings (the same was true for the head person at Vanguard Investments if I recall correctly). I knew senior Air Force officers who would play golf together - during the day - regularly, because that is when they would talk big issues and strategy. My commander would ask us what issues we thought he should bring up to the general - not at the staff meeting, but during Golf! I suspect we need more senior managers playing golf. It would be a good measure of how well they were running the company. Thanks Bruce Survivor,

Aah, the days where senior management is suppose to work at a strategic arms length and stay out of the day to day activities is long gone. I’ve had VPs in a Fortune 50 company give me the status of individual software defects (and they had upwards to 2000 software engineers working for them!). This was to show that they were “engaged” with the work being done. It would have been better if they worked on a strategy that helped us avoid making promises we couldn’t keep.

I think it is telling that folks like Warren Buffet do not have their days taken up by meetings (the same was true for the head person at Vanguard Investments if I recall correctly). I knew senior Air Force officers who would play golf together – during the day – regularly, because that is when they would talk big issues and strategy. My commander would ask us what issues we thought he should bring up to the general – not at the staff meeting, but during Golf!

I suspect we need more senior managers playing golf. It would be a good measure of how well they were running the company.

Thanks

Bruce

]]> By: Survivor http://pmtoolsthatwork.com/a-successful-manager-but-never-a-successful-project/#comment-523 Survivor Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:08:54 +0000 http://pmtoolsthatwork.com/?p=228#comment-523 Great article! I used to believe senior managers were supposed to go play golf on Wednesday afternoons, since their people and processes where humming along nicely. There was no crises. Where did I lost the plot? Great article!
I used to believe senior managers were supposed to go play golf on Wednesday afternoons, since their people and processes where humming along nicely. There was no crises. Where did I lost the plot?

]]> By: Does Anyone Really Care If Your Project Is On-Time? | Project Management Tools That Work http://pmtoolsthatwork.com/a-successful-manager-but-never-a-successful-project/#comment-493 Does Anyone Really Care If Your Project Is On-Time? | Project Management Tools That Work Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:48:19 +0000 http://pmtoolsthatwork.com/?p=228#comment-493 [...] “do not want to know or do not want to take time to figure it out.” — Mostly I suspect because they don’t really believe it can be done that way. They may have never seen nor been apart of a successful effort. If they’ve seen a successful effort, they really don’t know why it was successful to be able to do it again with confidence (see: A Successful Manager But Never A Successful Project). [...] [...] “do not want to know or do not want to take time to figure it out.” — Mostly I suspect because they don’t really believe it can be done that way. They may have never seen nor been apart of a successful effort. If they’ve seen a successful effort, they really don’t know why it was successful to be able to do it again with confidence (see: A Successful Manager But Never A Successful Project). [...]

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