Odds and ends and the eXtreme project manager

The Hard-nosed PM blog was on hiatus because I was busy with other commitments.  But, all good things having an end, consider your vacation over; I’M BACK!  I must say I admire those of you out there that keep on blogging while carrying on your busy lives; it sure takes dedication.

Let me return briefly to the eXtreme project manager.  My last post was about part 1 of a 3 part podcast; while I was taking it easy, I did listen to the other two parts.  Basically I’ll condense my comments and say that they did mention project management but only in passing; most of the time was spend explaining life circumstances that led Doug DeCarlo down his current path.  That is all I have to say on the subject.

I’ll end by saying that I’m happy to be back and that I’ll be awaiting your comments on future posts.

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Comments

[Glen B. Alleman]

Glad you're back. Been working an Army Bio Threat program out west (from Denver) since September. IBR coming in Jan, Baseline coming together.
We're in the mode where ruthless command and control is the only thing that is going to pull this together in time to convince the government we're actually capable of managing their money.

You want "extreme" project management, trying pulling together $300M of bio tech in 8 weeks, stand up an EVMS, get 9 CAMs to cough up 30 Control Accounts, and 80 so Work Packages for a do or die deliverable 18 months from now.

Extreme? Brief a 3-Star on why he should not cancel the whole mess before we get started with the hard stuff.

[Patrick Richard]

Glen,

18 months for any Biotech project is short. Those projects routinely become very challenged; sounds like you are going to have fun with your stakeholders...