{"id":1418,"date":"2008-11-30T19:34:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T02:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/2008\/11\/30\/accidential-project-manager-part-1\/"},"modified":"2019-08-07T14:33:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T21:33:07","slug":"accidential-project-manager-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=1418","title":{"rendered":"Accidental Project Manager Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Accidental Project Manager Series<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/svapm.org\/2008\/11\/30\/accidential-project-manager-part-1\/\">Part 1<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/svapm.org\/2008\/12\/01\/accidential-project-manager-part-2\/\">Part 2<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/svapm.org\/2008\/12\/02\/accidental-project-manager-part-3\/\">Part 3<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/svapm.org\/2008\/12\/03\/accidental-project-manager-part-4\/\">Part 4<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/svapm.org\/2008\/12\/04\/accidental-project-manager-part-5\/\">Part 5<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/svapm.org\/2008\/12\/06\/accidental-project-manager-part-6\/\">Part 6<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was attending a dinner at the Northern California Airman&#8217;s Club where Eileen Colleens, commander of the a US space shuttle flight was speaking. Before she spoke, three college students received scholarships. They as a group were already quite impressive in their achievements.\u00a0 One students&#8217; comment continued to play through my mind; he stated that he knew in 3rd grade that he wanted to fly.<\/p>\n<p>Think about that<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How many of you knew what you wanted to be when you were in 3rd grade?<\/li>\n<li>How many of you knew that you wanted to be a project managers in 3rd grade?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many of us stumbled into our promotions, including becoming a project manager: we are accidental project managers.<\/p>\n<p>Wise people say that\u00a0we do not live long enough to learn everything from our own experiences. We should learn from others and their career falls.\u00a0 And so I&#8217;m starting a series on: The Accidental Project Manager: Lessons Learned.<img decoding=\"async\" height=\"96\" alt=\"Accidental Project Manager\" src=\"https:\/\/svapm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/accident1.thumbnail.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Why Do companies Let Us Become Project Managers?<\/strong><br \/>\nCompanies look for people who understand and can manage a couple of things:<br \/>\n<strong>Complex Products<\/strong>: The product development (NPI) process is very complex; impacting almost all groups from development to sales, from finance to support.<br \/>\n<strong>Complex business processes:<\/strong> The cradle-to-grave processes for even mid-size companies are becoming increasingly regulated in the US and touch multiple continents abroad.<br \/>\n(and we need to do it in an) <strong>Shorted time horizon<\/strong>: The global environment makes Fast-Time-To-Market (FTTM) a competitive necessity.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, any one who has cross-functional can immediately make an impact. So organizations need project managers and are looking in their Qualified Pool. To reduce risk, enterprises stay in-house and promote:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Engineers and developers to Project Managers<\/li>\n<li>Business analysts to Project Managers<\/li>\n<li>Business Subject matter experts to Project Managers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why Is That a Problem?<\/strong><br \/>\nSo some facts about the state of project management in most organizations:\u00a0 Interthink Consulting completed an Organizational Project Management Baseline Study.\u00a0 They say:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>69% of organizations have no formal organizational definition of project management roles and responsibilities.<\/li>\n<li>62% of project resources are allocated to projects on a part-time or informal basis.<\/li>\n<li>65% of project managers have little or no formal training in project management.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Accidental project managers&#8217; are increasing common in the workplace with most of us professing at some point to a lack of qualifications or training in the area, having found ourselves in the job of managing a project without any experience. It is not surprising that according to the Chaos Study published by the Gartner group that most projects rarely meet time and cost targets.<\/p>\n<p>Post a comment and let us know how your organizations promotes people into project management positions.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we will talk about why project managers want to be project managers.<\/p>\n<p>Rosemary Hossenlopp, MBA PMP \u00a9 2008 All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accidental Project Manager Series Part 1 \/ Part 2 \/ Part 3 \/ Part 4 \/ Part 5 \/ Part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[440,31,38,275],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","tag-career-choice","tag-motivation","tag-project-management","tag-project-manager"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14140,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions\/14140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}