{"id":564,"date":"2009-07-10T15:19:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T13:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=564"},"modified":"2009-07-10T15:20:09","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T13:20:09","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-about-project-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/what-you-need-to-know-about-project-management\/","title":{"rendered":"What you need to know about Project Management."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Project Management Truths:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A project is one small step for the project sponsor, one giant leap for the project manager. <\/li>\n<li>Good project management is not so much knowing what to do and when, as knowing what excuses to give and when. <\/li>\n<li>If everything is going exactly to plan, something somewhere is going massively wrong. <\/li>\n<li>Everyone asks for a strong project manager &#8211; when they get him they don&#8217;t want him. <\/li>\n<li>Overtime is a figment of the na\u00c3\u00afve project manager&#8217;s imagination. <\/li>\n<li>Quantitative project management is for predicting cost and schedule overruns well in advance. <\/li>\n<li>Good project managers know when not to manage a project. <\/li>\n<li>All project managers face problems on Monday mornings &#8211; good project managers are working on next Monday&#8217;s problems. <\/li>\n<li>Metrics are learned men&#8217;s excuses. <\/li>\n<li>For a project manager overruns are as certain as death and taxes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/project%20management\" rel=\"tag\">project management<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Management Truths: A project is one small step for the project sponsor, one giant leap for the project manager. Good project management is not so much knowing what to do and when, as knowing what excuses to give and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/what-you-need-to-know-about-project-management\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  What you need to know about Project Management.<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,8],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ibm","category-work","tag-project-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}