From where and to where?

Projects are temporary occurrences in systems with a past and a future. Therefore one of the best 'trick' I've learned in the understanding of an organization or an individual or in general any organic always asking about: "What's happened over the past 5-10 years?" And "Where are you in 5-10 years? ". It provides 100 times as good understanding that even the best analysis of the present situation.

Moreover it is also one of the techniques you need to learn if you want to become a better networker!

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Concentrate on the important stuff

As a rule of thumb expect that between 10% and 20% of the problems in a project are of technical / professional nature that requires technical / professional knowledge to be resolved.

Yet,9 out of 10 companies see it as important that their project managers have a technical / professional background! So they grab the best technical / professional to solve the 80% to 90% of the problems, which is about something completely different! Is that stupid or what?

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