97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know

Contents ix

Don’t Worship a Methodology................... 88

Fabio Teixeira de Melo, PMP

Don’t Throw Spreadsheets at People Issues.......... 90

Anupam Kundu

One Deliverable, One Person................... 92

Alan Greenblatt

The Fallacy of Perfect Knowledge................ 94

David Wood

Build Teams to Run Marathons, Not Sprints.......... 96

Naresh Jain

The Holy Trinity of Project Management............ 98

Paul Waggoner, MBA, PMP, MCSE, CHP, CHSS

Roadmaps: What Have We Done for You Lately?...... 100

Kathy MacDougall

The Importance of the Project Scope Statement....... 102

Kim Heldman, PMP

Align Vision and Expected Outcome.............. 104

David Diaz Castillo, MBA, PMP

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore................. 106

Barbee Davis, MA, PHR, PMP

Avoiding Contract Disputes. ................... 108

Jorge Gelabert, PMP

You Get What You Measure. ................... 110

Naresh Jain