http://heymans.org/2009/01/what-does-a-good-project-manager-do-actually/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-does-a-good-project-manager-do-actually I'm Bert Heymans, a project manager, moonlighting hobby photographer and an all-round tech adventurer. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:44:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://heymans.org/2009/01/what-does-a-good-project-manager-do-actually/#comment-23 Bert Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:04:09 +0000 http://heymans.org/?p=170#comment-23 Cool perspective, making the info go around in a natural way like that makes a lot of sense. Cool perspective, making the info go around in a natural way like that makes a lot of sense.

]]> http://heymans.org/2009/01/what-does-a-good-project-manager-do-actually/#comment-22 bart vandendriessche Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:39:46 +0000 http://heymans.org/?p=170#comment-22 I had a discussion about this topic recently as well and found out that what really makes a pm great is the ability to 'shoot the project breeze'. Have small informal status updates at the coffee machine or when crossing each other in the hallway. During these chats, information gets exchanged in a two way fashion so the pm has his status / difficulties info, and the developers have their "what's in the pipeline" info. Obviously, brief chats like these are not meant to replace the more classic status meetings, but they do offer a lot of perspective and make everyone on the project more informed as a whole. I had a discussion about this topic recently as well and found out that what really makes a pm great is the ability to ‘shoot the project breeze’. Have small informal status updates at the coffee machine or when crossing each other in the hallway. During these chats, information gets exchanged in a two way fashion so the pm has his status / difficulties info, and the developers have their “what’s in the pipeline” info. Obviously, brief chats like these are not meant to replace the more classic status meetings, but they do offer a lot of perspective and make everyone on the project more informed as a whole.

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