Mistakes I Have Made: Collected Project Management Failures
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While this may look like a confessional, this is a collection of 'worse practices' that I have either seen, done myself, averted at the last minute, or gotten to watch them go down in flames. This will also skew heavily towards back-end problems that project managers get to face, because it's where I'm most comfortable and have the most interesting stories. Audience participation encouraged.
I'll cover:
- Sales disasters that ended up making it into my life and never should have been here
- Discovery disasters that ended up making people crazy
- Methods of project management applied too vigorously and took the shine off everything
- Communication methods that ended up worse off than just saying nothing
- Ways to work 70 hours a week because you're just so valuable and no one could possibly do the same things that you do (So flexible!)
- How to mess up on billing
- Excellent celebrations for the Festival of the Last Minute