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Transforming Project Management: An Essential Paradigm for Turning Your Strategic Planning into Action
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Transforming Project Management: An Essential Paradigm for Turning Your Strategic Planning into Action

by Duane Petersen
March 2021
Beginner content levelBeginner
336 pages
4h 31m
English
McGraw-Hill
Content preview from Transforming Project Management: An Essential Paradigm for Turning Your Strategic Planning into Action

CHAPTER EIGHT

Project Resources

The Science Behind Herding Cats

Hiring the Wrong Project Managers

I’m rarely more shocked than when I see who gets hired as project managers. The following steps outline a typical scenario for selection of a project manager for a large, mission-critical software application.

•   After much thought, a job announcement is created. The company decides to look for someone who has managed large software development projects in the past.

•   The announcement is submitted to recruitment organizations, which review applications and narrow down the choices to several applications from software development managers or lead developers who, in their opinion, managed development projects in the past. These applications are ...

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ISBN: 9781264258369