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My favorite status report of all time was one that clearly signified to me that the so-called project manager was not fit for the responsibilities. It was a product selection project where RFPs had been sent to a number of vendors, and the responses needed to be evaluated by a team of reviewers who would make the vendor selection decision.
THE THREE-SENTENCE PROJECT MISSION STATEMENT: ARE WE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE? 18 July 2002 by Doug DeCarlo
A one-page project mission statement is way too long, I've found. Here are some reasons:
One benefit of running executive education courses is that I get to talk with a large number of IT executives in a forum that encourages us to think about issues. Last month, I helped run one at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that included more than 50 IT executives. During meals and coffee breaks, we spent a good deal of time talking about outsourcing and Web services.
