Tham khảo tài liệu 'fundamentals of project management worksmart by james p. lewis_2', kinh doanh - tiếp thị, quản trị kinh doanh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | I An Overview of Project Management 5 The first rule of project management is that the people who must do the work should help plan it. It would be better if the PMBOK Guide specified that a project manager should facilitate planning. One mistake made by inexperienced project managers is to plan the project for the team. Not only do they get no buy-in to their plan but that plan is usually full of holes. Managers can t think of everything their estimates of task durations are wrong and the entire thing falls apart after the project is started. The first rule of project management is that the people who must do the work should help plan it. The role of the project manager is that of an enabler. Her job is to help the team get the work completed to run interference for the team to get scarce resources that team members need and to buffer them from outside forces that would disrupt the work. She is not a project czar. She should be above everything a leader in the true sense of the word. The best definition of leadership that I have found is the one by Vance Packard in his book The Pyramid Climbers. He says Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something that you believe should be done. The operative word here is want. Dictators get others to do things that they want done. So do guards who supervise prison work teams. But a leader gets people to want to do the work and that is a significant difference. The planning scheduling and control of work represent the management or administrative part of the job. But without leadership projects tend to just satisfy bare minimum requirements. With leadership they can exceed those bare minimums. I offer a comprehensive application of project leadership techniques in Chapter 13. Leadership is the art of getting others to want to do something that you believe should be done. Vance Packard American Management Association 6 Fundamentals of Project Management I It Is Not Just Scheduling One of the .
