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Importance of Feedback
Most people are uncomfortable about receiving honest, constructive feedback. Managers can be resistant to requesting feedback and team members can be resistant to giving it due to possible ramifications.
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Continuous Value for Stakeholders
Many times value for the customer or stakeholder only arrives when the final product is delivered.
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Learning from Lessons Learned
The team will successfully make a list of mistakes and potential improvements but may stop short of actually planning to integrate them into a future project.
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When to record Lessons Learned
The final meeting after the project delivery to summarize the lessons learned is good but has potential not to catch all lessons during the whole project.
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Initial Stakeholder Communication
During the initial phase of the project, stakeholder(s) did not receive adequate information concerning project time line, cost or other unique project characteristics.
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Unrealistic release to operation
Client planned unrealistic scope to be release to operation for defined time before Xmas.
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Always manage risk in the project
Clear risk management starting from BEFORE the project until successful delivery was key success factor for the major project delivery. The Risk matrix and risk management was requested even though the delivery PM was not requesting it.
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Project progress vs. Client's expectations
In the Project, the project manager from Customer's side did report status while involving also personal expectations.
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Resource availability for Project
During the Project I had problem with the availability of the resources from Business side due to other operational activities although the Project has been properly announced and resource need has been confirmed verbally.
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Dividing Essentials from Non-Essentials
Sometimes success for a manager of any level means deciding what is important and what is not at different points in time. A good manager can find the critical route without distraction.