I try NOT to read blogs that use bad PM practices as their starting point. But I just could not control myself this time. I was responding a comments and made a new post on "Black Swans."This types of post use that olde saw...
Patient: Doctor, Doctor it hurts when I do this. Doctor: Then stop doing that.
David Schmaltz has one of those posts. It's about part time project managers that fail in their job as a project manager. Well don't fricken do that, dummy. Of course you're gonna fail. What did you think was going to happen? Many like to publish this kind of stuff as somehow insightful and authoritative advice for project managers.
When you make an intentional (maybe even malice of forethought ) decision to do something you know is wrong - like hand a PM a project that requires a full time effort and say "take care of this in your spare time," you're simply doing stupid things on purpose and then writing that this is a problem in the project management domain. Really? I'm just dumbfounded about the surprise - NOT.
But there are lots of these stupid on purpose things. But that doesn't make them representative in any sense of the proper, informed, and beneficially actionable approaches to project management that are needed for increasing the probability of success.
