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The Project environment offers numerous opportunities for project managers and team members to get into trouble. Common types of management pitfalls are
Knowing oneself, especially one’s capabilities, strengths and weakness, is the first step forward to successful project management. Too often managers will assume that they are jack of all trades, will bite off more than they can chew and then find that insufficient time exists for training additional personnel. Activity traps result when the means become the end , rather than the means to achieve the end. The most common activity traps are team meetings, customer – technical interchange meetings and the development of special schedules and charts that cannot be used for customer reporting but are used to inform upper-level management of project status. Sign of documents are another activity traps and managers must evaluate whether all this paper work is worth the effort.
Another major pitfall is the decision to utilize either people skills or task skills so to be a effective project manager you must establish time management rules and plan solid block for important activities.
The Author Suresh .V. Menon is a Certified Master Black belt and has 24 years of experience in the IT Industry; he is also currently doing his Doctorate in Philosophy in the field of Computer Science and can be contacted at sureshmenonr1009@gmail.com for comments and queries.
