The Project From Hell: The Latest Dirt
Apr. 25th, 2012 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mythicalgirlWell! This week has certainly been interesting.
Yesterday all members of the project team for TPFH received an email informing them that effective immediately our current Project Manager was being replaced with a new Project Manager.
um...okay.
- our old PM isn't gone, he's just on other projects now
- our new PM is of the unicorns and rainbows* school of project management
- the decision was made by management, not the old PM, and I get the impression he isn't all that happy about it
I am reserving judgment until I see how this goes but my gut tells me that this will still be The Project From Hell.
* a PM of the unicorns and rainbows school doesn't believe in giving bad news - or any negative updates, really - to management and the steering committee. This can lead to the powers that be thinking everything is going great then getting blindsided when we can't meet our implementation date.
Yesterday all members of the project team for TPFH received an email informing them that effective immediately our current Project Manager was being replaced with a new Project Manager.
um...okay.
- our old PM isn't gone, he's just on other projects now
- our new PM is of the unicorns and rainbows* school of project management
- the decision was made by management, not the old PM, and I get the impression he isn't all that happy about it
I am reserving judgment until I see how this goes but my gut tells me that this will still be The Project From Hell.
* a PM of the unicorns and rainbows school doesn't believe in giving bad news - or any negative updates, really - to management and the steering committee. This can lead to the powers that be thinking everything is going great then getting blindsided when we can't meet our implementation date.
