Personal Project Management Maturity Measurement (PP3M)

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Published on Thursday, 24 March 2011 20:42
Written by Kenneth Loh Weng Hong, PMP
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Purposes

The purposes set out for the Personal Project Management Maturity Measurement (PP3M) framework are to:

  • list the methods of how project managers (PMs) can measure their own operation readiness for their next projects.
  • list possible types of measurements for PMs to gauge their personal project-management capabilities.
  • allow self-profiling to better match the project manager with the type of projects that can harness the project manager's strengths.

Project Management Anti-Patterns

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Published on Friday, 25 March 2011 11:15
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There are many excellent literatures and resources listing good project-management practices and theories. A handful of them cataloged them into project management patterns.

However, anti-patterns for project management are not as plentifully cataloged. Some scenarios which I observed to be prevalent at where I am practicing could not be located. And if there are any to be found, the relationships between the anti-patterns are not well defined if any at all.

Hence, hoping to contribute to the cataloging of anti-patterns, I planned to list my self-created anti-patterns here with the aim to search for their clones if they exist elsewhere albeit with different names, and to further develop their definitions:

  • PMBOK® and Agile Dichotomy
  • UP-Agile Dichotomy
  • Mystical Man-month2
  • Accidental Project Management
  • Dispensable Charter
  • Heroes
  • Captain of a Sinking Ship
  • Vicious Circle
  • Ostrich
  • Fat at All the Wrong Places
    • Front-end Obesity
    • Rear-end Obesity
  • Been-there-done-that
  • Old Baggage
  • Reneging Client
  • Silver Bullet
  • Bulge (bloated up-fronts - Waterfall)
  • Different Masters
  • Features Soup1
  • Killing The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs
  • Death by Committee
  • Myopia
  • Wish-list for Santaα
  • Big-bang Releaseα
  • Smoke and Mirrorsα ("Wayang" in Malay)
  • Unsustainable Paceα
  • Founder's Syndrome
  • Perpetual Iterations

 

The following UML diagram will represent any of their general relationships. It is not updated with all the anti-patterns listed above for now, but it will in its next update.

Please follow this page for detailed updates.

1 From the book Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior by DeMarco et al. 2008

2 The use of the word Mystical is intentional. This anti-pattern depicts the false beliefs supplementing those mentioned in the book Mythical Man-month by Frederick Brooks.

αFrom the book Agile Product Management with Scrum by Roman Pichler.

® PMBOK is a registered trademark of Project Management Institute, Inc.


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