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Common Project Manager Pitfalls


Project Management Essentials

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The pitfalls that project managers should avoid include:
  • The failure to address issues immediately
  • Rescheduling too often
  • Be content with reaching milestones on time while ignoring quality
  • Focusing more on project administrating and less on project management
  • Micromanaging rather than managing and delegating effectively
  • Adopting new tools to quickly
  • Monitoring project progress intermittently

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Project managers are put in very sensitive and difficult positions surrounded by possibilities of errors and things going wrong at each stage of the project.
Some pitfalls that Project Managers should avoid include:
  • The failure to address issues immediately
  • Rescheduling too often
  • Be content with reaching milestones on time while ignoring quality
  • Focusing more on project administrating and less on project management
  • Micromanaging rather than managing and delegating effectively
  • Adopting new tools to quickly
  • Monitoring project progress intermittently
Just like with any other profession, project managers are constant learners. They continuously work on enhancing their technical, managerial and inter-personal skills. They learn from their mistakes and use their experiences to manage their future projects successfully.

Know when to cut your losses if necessary. Don’t let your desire to succeed be the enemy of good judgment. If Napoleon had left Moscow immediately, he may have returned with a salvageable army. Jerry Manas