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Jean-Michel DE JAEGER, EMBA, PMP
Project Manager, France
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The Most Important Thing in Project Management: the Word MANAGEMENT
In my opinion the most important thing in project management that many people overlook is in the word MANAGEMENT. Of all the difficulties you face,
- Project methods and tools are useful in project management to organize, to plan, to follow-up, to report but they represent no more than 30% of your challenges as a project manager.
- The other 70% concern the management of the project team, integrating the project into the overall management of the firm, the management of the stakeholders, and of course the management of the client relationship.
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Linda Juspandi
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The Hardest Thing In Project Management: Managing Cross-functional Activities
I totally agree. However, management of cross functional activities is the hardest thing and are often missed...
For example, security requirements (physical & electronic) often come from the client security department and not the accommodation property group. If it does come from the property group...it is a matter of them forwarding the brief directly to us.
The thing is that some of the reqs are actually in conflict with one another...but unless we go through them in fine combs...we won't know. It is so time consuming (in particular with door schedules etc etc)...
Anybody ever experienced this too...??
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David Dicanot
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Why Projects Fail: Project Definition and Resources, ...
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P V ANANTHARAMAIAH
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Jean-Michel DE JAEGER, EMBA, PMP
Project Manager, France
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The Most Important Thing in Project Management: the Word MANAGEMENT
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Jean-Michel DE JAEGER, EMBA, PMP
Project Manager, France
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Elizabeth Elikem Addae
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The Most Important Thing in Project Management: the Word Management
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The Most Important Thing in Management is Management
@K.Narayana Moorthy: Further to my previous public (...)
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Student (Other), Trinidad and Tobago
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K.Narayana Moorthy
HR Consultant, India
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@Paul D Giammalvo: distinguished colleague, may I (...)
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HR Consultant, India
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Paul D Giammalvo
Professor and Consultant, Indonesia
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Most Important Thing About Project Management...
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Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands
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Project ≠ Project Management..
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Jean-Michel DE JAEGER, EMBA, PMP
Project Manager, France
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Maxx
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Projectization of Operations....
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Professor, Malaysia
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Managing a Project is Truly a Cakewalk, Provided You Reign the Triumvirate
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