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As I’ve mentioned, my consulting business is built around IT project management. Generally speaking I manage multi-million dollar projects requiring many people over many months.
This was a two day effort — I thought.
It wasn’t. It also hit as many of the problems (risk events) as I’ve seen in even the largest of projects.
So, the one real lesson I’ve learned is …
Lesson Learned #10:
A Project is A Project is A Project
It doesn’t matter what the size of the project is. What matters is the importance to the organization. All projects need to be managed using good project management techniques.
A PROJECT NEEDS TO BE MANAGED AS A PROJECT!!!!!
The only issue is that small dollar projects need to be efficient in their use of project management resources. The project management processes need to be small and light-weight — not agile, that’s something different. Keep the overhead down but do all the tasks.
Small dollar projects can be the most interesting to a long time project manager as they require judgement in applying the tools. You can’t use the same tools as a big project can absorb. But you need to accomplish the same things (from a PM point of view) at a much reduced cost.
