Four Common Rookie Project Manager Mistakes and how to Avoid Them

Download or read book Four Common Rookie Project Manager Mistakes and how to Avoid Them written by Dana Brownlee and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rookie project managers often fall victim to costly mistakes and errors that can derail a project and significantly affect one's project management career. Fortunately, these mistakes are indeed avoidable. This paper explores four of these all too common mistakes and provides practical tips and best practices that can be used by project managers of varying experience levels. Four specific pitfalls that too often derail the rookie project manager include these: Mistake #1--Not Dealing With the Slacker on the Team; Mistake #2--Skipping the Initiating Phase; Mistake #3--Skipping Risk Analysis; and Mistake #4--Not Being Brutally Honest With the Project Sponsor. Any of these mistakes can cause time/cost overruns, morale difficulties, poor project selection, team dysfunction, estimating errors, stakeholder dissatisfaction, or other project problems.