12 Rules for Project Management
Does Project Management have rules? Well, not really. But this set of Project Management rules is valuable guidance to all of us. So, take a look at my 12 rules for Project Management and let me know yours, in the comments below.
We start with something that is not a rule, but a prediction:
Failing to Plan is the same as Planning to Fail
President Eisenhower said:
‘In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.’
He was riffing on an earlier quote from Helmuth von Moltke:
'No Plan Survives Contact with the Enemy'
Here are my 12 Rules:
1. Save your Arguments about what a Project is for the Coffee Shop.
Focus on the Characteristics of What Needs to be Done.
2. The One Thing a Project Manager Craves, above all else, is Control
3. Scoping is the Most Difficult Part of Project Management
4. You can Please all of your Stakeholders some of the Time, and Some of your Stakeholders all of the Time; but you Can’t Please All of your Stakeholders all of the Time
5. Projects would be Easy, if it weren’t for the People
6. Stakeholders will Determine the Success, or Not, of your Project
7. Milestones are your Best Friends
8. Shift Happens! Things Change
9. Fizzing bmbs will explode if you don’t deal with them
10. An Absentee Project Manager is a Contradiction in Terms
11. If it isn’t Right, it isn’t Finished
(not: if it isn’t perfect…)
12. The Level of Attention to Details can often Make the Difference between Success and Failure
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Please use the comments to tell me what Project Management rules you like to live by…
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Here are some of the pieces of advice I have found myself giving again and again. So I have codified them into rules!
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4 жыл бұрын
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Cannot thank you enough for the free content. Lots of respect!
@Onlinepmcourses
3 жыл бұрын
You're very welcome.
I think you are avery good at communicating your points! All of you videos are vey informative.
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Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Very good management project. Now I have writing about my learning to my project.
@Onlinepmcourses
Жыл бұрын
Go for it!
Thank you for this thoughtful guide to project management! I feel I have a lot of skills to work on after listening to this rundown.
@Onlinepmcourses
3 жыл бұрын
Glad it was helpful, Laura! PM is a process of forever learning.
Great set of advices provided by a beeeeautiful mind to build up a strong mindset! I am so lucky to have decided to cross class my career with project management and to have watched your videos sir. Thank you.
@Onlinepmcourses
3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful. You're so welcome!
Thank you. Great work.
@Onlinepmcourses
3 жыл бұрын
My pleasure.
Thanks Mike I have learnt a lot in this video, i will apply these daily
@Onlinepmcourses
2 жыл бұрын
That's great to hear, Tonderai.
very insightful...thank you for sharing!!
@Onlinepmcourses
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, you're welcome.
Very practical and experienced rules
@Onlinepmcourses
3 жыл бұрын
Well, they do come from my own real, practical experience.
One of the best video :)
@Onlinepmcourses
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Kishor.
This is very knowledgeable and interesting video about rules for project management being a future project manager I will apply there 12 rules Thanks Sir
@Onlinepmcourses
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your comments
Best so far
@Onlinepmcourses
2 жыл бұрын
...and loads more to come!
When you know the concept delivering it is not tough, you're indeed equipped to do more.
@Onlinepmcourses
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Tambie.
Superb.
@Onlinepmcourses
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Cheers!
I am NO delivery construction and I have good my project manager and I will improving news industry and I have desition idea. I have news planing on the my thinking about operating business.
@Onlinepmcourses
Жыл бұрын
Great!
I'm still in minute 3 and already commenting. I sincerely needed this video. You are giving me the right info and mindset at the very important point in my life. I had inadequacy feelings since I started this job though I killed it with my common sense and adaptation, yet I'm not the PROFESSIONAL who I wish I would be now through the knowledge. I'm trying to get done with the CAPM so I get the very basics accurate. Then will continue towards PMP. Any advise if I should wait the new PMBOK 7th or let me just study this course in-hand using the 6th edition. (Please), Thank you very much! (Sir)🌹
@Onlinepmcourses
3 жыл бұрын
PMI will make announcements in due course. Until then,PBOK6 is the basis of the CAPM exam and one of the core references for the PMP exam. It's likely to stay that way for a fair while. Take your exams at your own pace. Don't worry about syllabus changes; follow the guidance at the time. Your career is a long game. Good luck.
@flystraight7994
2 жыл бұрын
Big respect and appreciation sir. Talking to you from Rurals of Africa, I'm an expatriate there having a part in developing and contributing to lives of poor and disadvantaged farmers. And your channel helps greatly. Couldn't find any better though I did watch a lot here on YT. Thanks for the content and hard work. You're the best.
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2 жыл бұрын
@@flystraight7994 Thank you - it's my pleasure to offer content to people like you.
Yes sir I have satisfying and my builder house only one living in selling mediation and I have money transfer online to account BANK. After traveling agent in NO arrives driving in my driving my car.
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Жыл бұрын
OK
Bob Marley Lyric No4.
@Onlinepmcourses
3 жыл бұрын
Not with you on this one, Adam???
@Adam-ui3ot
3 жыл бұрын
@@Onlinepmcourses Bob Marley wrote on his song "You can fool some of the people sometimes but you cant fool all the people all of the time" What you said about pleasing people is a slight variation on these words. Poignant.
@Onlinepmcourses
3 жыл бұрын
@@Adam-ui3ot Okay - well, Marley got the quote from PT Barnum!
@Adam-ui3ot
3 жыл бұрын
@@Onlinepmcourses Mike which one of your courses would you recommend for a beginner?
@Onlinepmcourses
3 жыл бұрын
@@Adam-ui3ot It depends where you want to get to: - for a basic, no-cost introduction, there's Project Management Fundamentals: school.onlinepmcourses.com/p/project-management-fundamentals If you want paid courses, you can compare the following courses (and their prices) at: onlinepmcourses.com/core-project-management-courses/ - for a low-cost 10-week email course, there's The Project Manager's Secret Success Formula - for structured learning across a broader base, there's The Project manager's Fast Start Program - for committed beginners who see PM as a long term part of their jobs or careers, there's The Project Manager's Skills Mastery Program