Technology project management

My Personal Project Management Tools

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• Manage expectations
• Write it down. Write it down. Documentation is critical to your success as a project manager.

Technology project management with a community organizing model

• How to hold self more accountable
• Prioritizing
• Remote coordination

• Social justice lens on tech and how tech gets done. Tech is loaded with power relations.

• Project management letting those receiving service to control own destiny. Articulate own needs, facilitate the development.

• Overarching humility, must work in service. Empathy

• Techie is the wrong person to manage project

• Must be able to view world through others’ eyes

• Passive aggressive tool

• Community about building leadership and federated ownership

• Primary job of project manager should be that of a storyteller - folkloric or mythological. Dialog

• Start with a story, evil force and good force

• Problem statement and solution statement

• Importance of language - disciplined control

• Smallest number of carefully chosen words to characterize it

• Power of language done right, danger of language done wrong

• Keep wires warm, keep lines open

• Alert everyone of regular updates and always keep to schedule

• Use tool everyone already uses

• Know your audience and meet them in their cultural place of norm

• Include everyone throughout development

• Be accountable even when behind schedule

• Transparent and accountable

• All resources are findable

• Radically transparent - without being noisy

• Accountability - trust

• Make reports fun and or entertaining

• Be Self-Deprecating

• Non-sexual “flirting”

• “Write shit down”

• Be a manager of critical path project assets

• “Savior solution”

• If you give someone something for free, they won’t value it

• Accountable to users - ask them, Downstream stakeholders

• Your manager, Upstream stakeholder. Lower expectations to always exceed them

Order out of chaos, and asking for support

• Third party vendor - lie about budget and deadline

• Different internal, external, and conceived dates

• Cut out features instead of - Minimum Viable Product. Agile narrative, ship early, ship often. Ship early product and get feedback to build feelings of ownership with stakeholders

• Project management platforms - simplicity and ubiquity is key