Situational Project Management

Appendix D

Twelve Suggestions for Situational Project Managers

1. Project management is an open-skill discipline, not a closed-skill one: As a project manager, you have to respond situationally to the complex dynamics of success and failure.

2. There are no “best practices” in project management: The same practice that was successful in one project or project situation may fail in another one.

3. A fundamental feature of a project manager should be realism, which means navigating between the two monsters of “easy” and “panic”.

4. The principal project resource is management attention. Having it does not guarantee the availability of resources, but without it, other resources will also be scarce.

5. Ignore stakeholders, and they will come back and bring friends, ...