A Project Manager's Diary

The concept of a team can be highly demonstrated and understood through watching a music band, where each team member is responsible for his instrument, and all band members are responsible for the whole piece of music. For an unforgettable symphony, there should be no dissonant sounds; all instruments should be played in harmony and in synch, each in his turn. Guitar, drums and other instruments are each needed to serve a certain purpose, no instrument is more important than the other. It’s the same in software, whether you are part of a small project team or part of a big project team, or even part of your organization as a whole, the concept of a team is still applicable. Team members should always focus on completing each other not on blaming each other or getting rid of responsibility or throwing their tasks to others. Teamwork is harmony in everything, each team member knows his role and the role of others, each plays really good with his tools and experience. It’s like...

At first, a PM to me meant a respectful person, full of experience and knowledge, some kind of a Chinese monk, sober, who knows what s/he does and knows that his/her job is to deliver successful projects as much as to help people and guide them. To my surprise “as usual”, I found out that there are different types of PMs in the world… In other words, different sizes of PMs! Let me introduce to you two project managers’ sizes and my stories with them. Mini PM referred to as Miss Mini and Mighty PM referred to as Mr. Mighty… Mini PM When I first met her, I tried to convince myself that she definitely looks much younger then her real age. Anyways… for her, a planning activity was equivalent to and maybe easier than preparing for a picnic or a weekend trip with friends and family! She was assigned a very big strategic project, and her role was to create the high level project plan for all teams and to coordinate with them to deliver the big project on time "of course". ...