Create the reputation before somebody else does it!!

When you  have shut your project down and has received the client's praise for delivering on time and on budget, it is time to create the project's reputation as a successful project. Box 'stories' about the project. Brew a short story: "It was hard ... we fought ... so we were near but so ... anyway we did it ... right in the eye ..." and let everyone in the team begin to tell it at every opportunity.

A great reputation is your only defense against a bad reputation if it turns out later that the project never reached the client's purpose and thereby Success Criteria's. In that situation everyone can remember that you were the project manager (and thus you will quickly be the guilty) while they rarely remember who the commissioners were (the real culprit).

It's big manipulation this blog post!

Yeah exactly!