Project Manager Street Smarts: A Real World Guide to PMP® Skills

Chapter 1. Initiating Process

Regardless of how your project is approved, at some point, trusted and experienced project managers may have to challenge the rationale of senior managers before placing the project into the portfolio or moving on to the next phase. Let's face it: these senior managers don't always have all of the information that we project managers may have. We do this based on data and facts. Emotions have no place here.

For example, some project managers working on internal projects (for example, capital improvement projects) are advised not to be concerned with the cost; "just do whatever it takes to get the job done" seems to be ...