In the Trenches with Microsoft® Office Project 2007

Chapter 11. Dealing with Management

EVEN THOUGH YOU’RE THE PROJECT MANAGER, chances are you answer to someone else in your company. To deal effectively with your own management, you need to keep your project’s goal in your own mind and the mind of your management; it’s easy but costly to lose focus of the original intent of the project. And of course, circumstances change—they always do during any project. Some of those changes will require support from your management, and you’ll need to sell management on the need for these changes. You’ll need to document why you want to make the changes, including providing budget information. In this chapter, ...