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Key Moments in Projects

Posted March 8, 2006 | Leadership | Amplify

There are many key moments in projects. What I do during those moments greatly influences the outcome of the project. There is good news here in that we as project managers can learn to recognize these moments and respond well.

I believe a key moment in a project occurs when someone brings me some not-so-good news about the work. This can happen many times in every project. There is a set of activities preceding such a moment:

About The Author
Dwayne Phillips
Dwayne Phillips has been a computer and systems engineer with the US government since 1980. He coauthored It Sounded Good When We Started, Working with People on Projects with Roy O'Bryan and wrote The Software Project Manager's Handbook, Principles That Work at Work , now in its second edition. Dwayne Phillips can be reached at d.phillips at computer.org. His Web site ishttp://dwaynephillips.net.
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