Comments on: Everything you know about project management is wrong http://pmstudent.com/everything-you-know-about-project-management-is-wrong/ Helping new and aspiring project managers reach their career goals! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:27:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chloe http://pmstudent.com/everything-you-know-about-project-management-is-wrong/#comment-3775 Chloe Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:13:02 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=775#comment-3775 You forgot... 99% of Project Managers running IT system implementation projects are IT freaks.. they do not have Business background, are not business savvy or really understand the delivery impact for the client, customer and END USER. I think there needs to be a wider group of backgrounds recruited which will give complimentary insight and right focal balance. This is where I see major down fall in all the projects I have been involved with, as just at the implementation stage, some contractor (which is another MAJOR ISSUE in IT projects) stuffed up and failed to consult 'the business' and 'user viability' especially in PDT and UAT that projects get stoped - rewritten- delayed, resulting in a lot of angry people and wasted money. I think if you have been in the game for 20yrs you are just a dangerous as the YOUNG UPSTARTS that come in trying to prove their ego to get their cash bonus. You forgot… 99% of Project Managers running IT system implementation projects are IT freaks.. they do not have Business background, are not business savvy or really understand the delivery impact for the client, customer and END USER. I think there needs to be a wider group of backgrounds recruited which will give complimentary insight and right focal balance. This is where I see major down fall in all the projects I have been involved with, as just at the implementation stage, some contractor (which is another MAJOR ISSUE in IT projects) stuffed up and failed to consult ‘the business’ and ‘user viability’ especially in PDT and UAT that projects get stoped – rewritten- delayed, resulting in a lot of angry people and wasted money.
I think if you have been in the game for 20yrs you are just a dangerous as the YOUNG UPSTARTS that come in trying to prove their ego to get their cash bonus.

]]> By: Chloe http://pmstudent.com/everything-you-know-about-project-management-is-wrong/#comment-24371 Chloe Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:13:00 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=775#comment-24371 You forgot... 99% of Project Managers running IT system implementation projects are IT freaks.. they do not have Business background, are not business savvy or really understand the delivery impact for the client, customer and END USER. I think there needs to be a wider group of backgrounds recruited which will give complimentary insight and right focal balance. This is where I see major down fall in all the projects I have been involved with, as just at the implementation stage, some contractor (which is another MAJOR ISSUE in IT projects) stuffed up and failed to consult 'the business' and 'user viability' especially in PDT and UAT that projects get stoped - rewritten- delayed, resulting in a lot of angry people and wasted money. I think if you have been in the game for 20yrs you are just a dangerous as the YOUNG UPSTARTS that come in trying to prove their ego to get their cash bonus. You forgot… 99% of Project Managers running IT system implementation projects are IT freaks.. they do not have Business background, are not business savvy or really understand the delivery impact for the client, customer and END USER. I think there needs to be a wider group of backgrounds recruited which will give complimentary insight and right focal balance. This is where I see major down fall in all the projects I have been involved with, as just at the implementation stage, some contractor (which is another MAJOR ISSUE in IT projects) stuffed up and failed to consult ‘the business’ and ‘user viability’ especially in PDT and UAT that projects get stoped – rewritten- delayed, resulting in a lot of angry people and wasted money.
I think if you have been in the game for 20yrs you are just a dangerous as the YOUNG UPSTARTS that come in trying to prove their ego to get their cash bonus.

]]> By: Paul Schmied http://pmstudent.com/everything-you-know-about-project-management-is-wrong/#comment-2585 Paul Schmied Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:14:24 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=775#comment-2585 "Gabino Carballo" I agree about your conclusions, but your statements about the derivation of engineering and architecture are off-base. In general, engineering is is the application of knowledge to utilize natural resources for human purposes. Farming using live natural resources, so is a subset of engineering. Professional engineering evolved from the design and building of engines (machines) of war, and civic infrastructure such as viaducts and roads. Architecture is an offshoot of engineering that focuses on human aspects artificially constructed structures. If landscape architects are soul-searching about whether they are professionals, then they aren't. I think that the label and self-perception are problems, because there is an association with landscaping, which is generally considered to be a cosmetic rather than substantive activity. From my perspective, it's general engineering focused on the environment. Practitioners who effectively use the hard-won engineering knowledge of the last 15000 years know that they are professionals, and don't worry about labels. I hope that they are, because our species' survival may depend on them. “Gabino Carballo” I agree about your conclusions, but your statements about the derivation of engineering and architecture are off-base.

In general, engineering is is the application of knowledge to utilize natural resources for human purposes. Farming using live natural resources, so is a subset of engineering.

Professional engineering evolved from the design and building of engines (machines) of war, and civic infrastructure such as viaducts and roads. Architecture is an offshoot of engineering that focuses on human aspects artificially constructed structures.

If landscape architects are soul-searching about whether they are professionals, then they aren’t. I think that the label and self-perception are problems, because there is an association with landscaping, which is generally considered to be a cosmetic rather than substantive activity. From my perspective, it’s general engineering focused on the environment. Practitioners who effectively use the hard-won engineering knowledge of the last 15000 years know that they are professionals, and don’t worry about labels.

I hope that they are, because our species’ survival may depend on them.

]]> By: Paul Schmied http://pmstudent.com/everything-you-know-about-project-management-is-wrong/#comment-24370 Paul Schmied Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:14:00 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=775#comment-24370 "Gabino Carballo" I agree about your conclusions, but your statements about the derivation of engineering and architecture are off-base. In general, engineering is is the application of knowledge to utilize natural resources for human purposes. Farming using live natural resources, so is a subset of engineering. Professional engineering evolved from the design and building of engines (machines) of war, and civic infrastructure such as viaducts and roads. Architecture is an offshoot of engineering that focuses on human aspects artificially constructed structures. If landscape architects are soul-searching about whether they are professionals, then they aren't. I think that the label and self-perception are problems, because there is an association with landscaping, which is generally considered to be a cosmetic rather than substantive activity. From my perspective, it's general engineering focused on the environment. Practitioners who effectively use the hard-won engineering knowledge of the last 15000 years know that they are professionals, and don't worry about labels. I hope that they are, because our species' survival may depend on them. “Gabino Carballo” I agree about your conclusions, but your statements about the derivation of engineering and architecture are off-base.

In general, engineering is is the application of knowledge to utilize natural resources for human purposes. Farming using live natural resources, so is a subset of engineering.

Professional engineering evolved from the design and building of engines (machines) of war, and civic infrastructure such as viaducts and roads. Architecture is an offshoot of engineering that focuses on human aspects artificially constructed structures.

If landscape architects are soul-searching about whether they are professionals, then they aren’t. I think that the label and self-perception are problems, because there is an association with landscaping, which is generally considered to be a cosmetic rather than substantive activity. From my perspective, it’s general engineering focused on the environment. Practitioners who effectively use the hard-won engineering knowledge of the last 15000 years know that they are professionals, and don’t worry about labels.

I hope that they are, because our species’ survival may depend on them.

]]> By: Gabino Carballo http://pmstudent.com/everything-you-know-about-project-management-is-wrong/#comment-2565 Gabino Carballo Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:02:22 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=775#comment-2565 PM is not really a profession because it is too early: it lacks sufficient recognition and specific expertise. Give it another 50 years and it maybe. Most professions were not professions at all in the past. Medicine was practised by barbers and quacks. Architects were glorified painters or people who were able to read a measured drawing. Engineers started out as gardeners that got over ambitious. However, you can conduct your work in a professional manner, ie: with care for your client and diligent work. This is an interesting discussion that leads nowhere. I can tell you because I am a landscape architect, and we suffer the same soul searching malaise. PM is not really a profession because it is too early: it lacks sufficient recognition and specific expertise. Give it another 50 years and it maybe. Most professions were not professions at all in the past. Medicine was practised by barbers and quacks. Architects were glorified painters or people who were able to read a measured drawing. Engineers started out as gardeners that got over ambitious.
However, you can conduct your work in a professional manner, ie: with care for your client and diligent work. This is an interesting discussion that leads nowhere. I can tell you because I am a landscape architect, and we suffer the same soul searching malaise.

]]> By: Gabino Carballo http://pmstudent.com/everything-you-know-about-project-management-is-wrong/#comment-24369 Gabino Carballo Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:02:00 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=775#comment-24369 PM is not really a profession because it is too early: it lacks sufficient recognition and specific expertise. Give it another 50 years and it maybe. Most professions were not professions at all in the past. Medicine was practised by barbers and quacks. Architects were glorified painters or people who were able to read a measured drawing. Engineers started out as gardeners that got over ambitious. However, you can conduct your work in a professional manner, ie: with care for your client and diligent work. This is an interesting discussion that leads nowhere. I can tell you because I am a landscape architect, and we suffer the same soul searching malaise. PM is not really a profession because it is too early: it lacks sufficient recognition and specific expertise. Give it another 50 years and it maybe. Most professions were not professions at all in the past. Medicine was practised by barbers and quacks. Architects were glorified painters or people who were able to read a measured drawing. Engineers started out as gardeners that got over ambitious.
However, you can conduct your work in a professional manner, ie: with care for your client and diligent work. This is an interesting discussion that leads nowhere. I can tell you because I am a landscape architect, and we suffer the same soul searching malaise.

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