How to Cheat at IT Project Management

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Pace of work

Padding in schedules 2nd

Paradox of power 2nd

Parameters

     refining

     work breakdown structure (WBS)

Partnering with counterparts 2nd

Passive voice

Pay raises

PDM (precedence diagramming method) 2nd

Percent completion 2nd 3rd

Performance 2nd

Performance indicators

Performance power 2nd

Performance reviews 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th

Performance testing 2nd

Perks

Personal information

Personal values

Personality power 2nd

Personnel performance reviews 2nd 3rd

PERT (program evaluation and review techniques) 2nd

Planned value (PV) 2nd

Planning

     communications 2nd 3rd

     deployment

     final

     finalizing 2nd 3rd

     operations

     quality 2nd 3rd

     resistance to

     steps of 2nd

     time for

     training

PMI (Project Management Institute)

Political change 2nd

Political countermeasures

     communications plan

     project team 2nd

     user involvement

Political environments

     communicating

     personal values

     political change

     politics 2nd

     positive relationships 2nd

     sharing power

Political logjams

     high-level support

Politics 2nd

Portfolios

Positional power 2nd

Positive relationships 2nd

Post-It notes

Potential solutions 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

Power 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

     expertise power

     informational

     performance power 2nd

     positional 2nd

     resource 2nd

Praise

Precedence diagramming method (PDM) 2nd

Precision 2nd 3rd

Presentation

Prevention versus correction

Priorities 2nd

Prioritizing

Problem statements

Problem-solving guidelines

Problems 2nd

Problems with budgets

     assets are moved off project 2nd

     big biters 2nd

     funds expended up front

     matrix organization

     personal conflict 2nd

     shrinkage

     too many approvals required

     whiners

Problems with customers

     impossible project 2nd

     project doesn't meet needs 2nd

     user is picking and choosing among deliverables

     user requirements have changed 2nd

     users are not pleased with project results

Problems with project vendors

     product or service does not meet specifications

     vendor does not communicate

     vendor does not deliver as promised

Problems with quality

     fixing the wrong problem 2nd

     initial results do not meet quality standards

     problems cannot be resolved 2nd

     problems reappear

     work delivered outside of scope 2nd

Problems with schedules

     everything is on the critical path

     floating completion date

     floating start date

     late start 2nd

     missed deadline or deliverable

     nothing is on the critical path

Problems with scope

     scope creep

     scope not feasible

     vague scope definition 2nd

     wrong approach 2nd

Problems with sponsors

     can't meet with sponsor 2nd

     lengthy project report

     meetings become rehash of prior decisions 2nd

     pressure from sponsor

Processes

     clearly defined 2nd

     defining 2nd

     for project teams

     projects

     quality management

Program evaluation and review techniques (PERT)

Programs

Progress

     knowledge work

     reporting 2nd

Progress reports 2nd

Project 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th

Project charter 2nd 3rd 4th

Project interfaces

Project management (PM)

     delegating

     overview

     process overview 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th

     software 2nd 3rd

Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) 2nd 3rd 4th

Project Management Institute (PMI) 2nd

Project steps

     closing out projects 2nd 3rd 4th

     defining projects 2nd

     managing projects 2nd 3rd

     organizing projects 2nd

     planning projects 2nd 3rd

     planning quality 2nd 3rd

     tracking projects

Projects

     administrative closure 2nd

     bug reports

     change requests

     constraints

     costs 2nd 3rd

     defining 2nd 3rd

     final team meeting 2nd 3rd

     finishing

     issues log

     lessons learned 2nd

     managers

     operational transfer

     parameters 2nd

     project mission statements 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

     schedules 2nd 3rd 4th

     solutions 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

     support for

     work orders

Promotion

Pronouncing names 2nd

Proposals

     approval 2nd 3rd

     developing 2nd 3rd 4th

     validating 2nd

PV (planned value)

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