Q-Success identifies couple of dirty tricks on project management. Some project manager may tries any tricks mentioned below to create the smoke and mirror of managing a project well. It is really fun article to read as it takes another perspective to understand and avoid those tricks better:
- Natural enemies of a project manager
- The customer is a mean to an end
- Plan the planning
- Requirements are not required
- Risks are too risky
- Keep the reports clean
- Milestones are fixed
- Embrace re-use
- Your project team is not your electorate
- All good things must come to an end
10 Lessons in Guerilla Tactics of Project Management – [Q-Success]