- Know what you are doing: Make sure there is a project plan.
- Know why you are doing it: Make sure the objective is clearly defined.
- Be prudent, honest, and prepared: Few organizations have limitless budgets, prudence, honesty and common sense are critical.
- Plan to your strenghts: Make sure you have the right team for the project.
- Know how to navigate: Understand how to get things accomplished within your organization.
- Know how to communicate: Good communication skills are critical. Project managers must communicate with team members, end users, and stakeholders.
- Know how to succeed: Project success should be clearly defined and understood.
- Know how to fail: There should also be a definition of what constitutes failure.
- Know when the project is over: Don’t let scope creep turn the project into the never ending story.
- Know how to learn: As the philosopher Santayana suggested, if we aren’t willing to learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. I believe the ability to learn from experience is one of the most critical project management skills.
From: AtTask
