{"id":4873,"date":"2010-08-27T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=4873"},"modified":"2010-08-26T19:41:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T02:41:15","slug":"the-project-manager-as-superhero-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svapm.org\/?p=4873","title":{"rendered":"The Project Manager as Superhero: Part 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Read\u00a0\u00a0how Project Man-ager uses his skills to defeat Scope Creep and The Bug and succeed in Project\u2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Bug’s latest has thrown them. But Project Man-ager was an old warrior and he been through a lot over the years in Project, and had learned a lot of tricks. He had been managing scope and expectations with stakeholders, project financials and most of all contingency planning for a long, long time.<\/div>\n

Contingency planning was is key in Project. As he stared off into the distance and remembered this, calm came over him.\u00a0 Through paying close attention to Communication, he had learned something that he filed away and he thought it might help here but he needed to tease it fully into memory.<\/p>\n

He took a good hard look at his plan in front of him. He had milked every drop from it and now he had to milk much more. How? Where was he to get the resources? Time and the money. Time and money. He needed to do twice the work now but had no time and no money.<\/p>\n

The Bug sat in the corner watching Project Man-ager and was feeling pretty pleased with himself. Had he stumped Project Man-ager? Had he defeated him once and for all?<\/p>\n

Wait\u2026 what was that look. That wasn\u2019t the look of defeat. Bug\u2019s smile vanished.<\/p>\n

It came to him. He had the beginning of an idea. He picked up the phone and called Project Woman-ager. Luckily she had some time today to brainstorm with him.\u00a0 After he finished talking, she had to agree, it just might work.<\/p>\n

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from Lumaxart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Project Man-ager smiled. He called his team back in. He had a great team and he was sure that together they would pull this off.<\/p>\n

He started to explain his plan. The Bug isn\u2019t really smart, he just breaks things, he can\u2019t think in terms of complexity, just size. Dev, is what he broke complicated or just a big massive smash up?<\/p>\n

It is massive but complicated, not really, why? It will take forever though to find the original start of his break and follow it all the way. It\u2019s a time issue really.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This happened due to the late changes we made for Mr. Needes to shorten his work flow, right? What if we undo that functionality and shorten his workflow in other ways?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Harry doesn\u2019t know that what we built based on his changes doesn\u2019t work\u2014he just cares about cutting out steps in his daily work. So we give him a fix that cuts out steps, just not the ones he thought. We will actually be doing more to shorten his process than he had asked for but he should be happier with that.<\/p>\n

Still time wise it would be very long process, Dev said.<\/p>\n

What if we could leverage work we have already done before?\u00a0 It will be just fine tuning\/reconfiguring existing code to fix this,\u00a0Project Man-ager explained. Will that and some changes to the existing workaround we created fix this?<\/p>\n

Dev and BA stared at him and then at each other. Maybe this would work. The team sat together and reviewed Project Man-ager\u2019s idea from all angles to see if fact it would work and they thought it would. They worked around the clock and\u00a0got it done.<\/p>\n

In the end,\u00a0they did not meet their deadline but\u00a0their solution\u00a0kept them as close to the timeline and budget as possible.\u00a0Mr. Needes\u00a0got\u00a0his shortened workflow. Scope Creep and The Bug did not derail everything, just caused trouble as usual.\u00a0Queen Spon-soor and Bud Geted were\u00a0assured that all that could be done had been done by Project Man-ager and his team.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Once again Project Man-ager and his team had survived Scope Creep and The Bug by utilizing their skills and creative thinking.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Epilogue….<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of\u00a0course Technology solutions or any kind of Project\u00a0 solutions are not always this easily done but I told this \u201ctale\u201d to show that no matter how the story goes, in any Project, there are 10 things you should always keep in mind:<\/p>\n

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  1. <\/em>Users will always want more, or something else.<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Scope Creep must be stopped at all cost, yes, but he is part of the Scope family. He will show up from time to time.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Signed Scope has the right idea \u2013 we have to learn to adjust and very quickly. Things come up in Project all the time, it is the truly gifted Project Man-ager and his team that can deal with the unforeseen and unexpected as they arise and still keep on time and budget or as close as possible.<\/em><\/li>\n
  4. There is no protection from The Bug – he will always be there and we must keep fighting that good fight each and every time.<\/em><\/li>\n
  5. Keep Communication close at all times. It\u2019s the best protection in Project.<\/em><\/li>\n
  6. Know that you cannot please everyone, even once.<\/em><\/li>\n
  7. Sometimes you have to backtrack to keep on track<\/em><\/li>\n
  8. Recycle what you can, when you can<\/em><\/li>\n
  9. Plan A is great but Plan B will save you.<\/em><\/li>\n
  10. Project Management is a challenging field and those in it, Project Man-ager and Project Woman-ager are\u00a0super at what they do, each and every day.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The End<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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