Don't make these mistakes!

1. Top 3 mistakes made when
hiring a project manager

2. MISTAKE #1: HIRING THE
WRONG AMOUNT OF
PROJECT MANAGERS

3. Pardon me? What do you
mean the wrong amount?

4. This is a chart of the effort
required on a project over
time

5. If you hire a fixed number of
Project Managers, they will be
in one of two scenarios:

6. Either they don’t have enough
to do most of the time,

7. or they are overcommitted
and at risk of burnout

8. A team of Project
Managers provides
resources as they are
needed

9. Scaling to perfectly fit the
needs of the project.

10. MISTAKE #2: SETTLING
FOR TOO LITTLE

11. Every Project Manager has
their own strengths and
weaknesses

12. This could be one of the
Project Mangers you are
considering:
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8
6
4
2
0

13. They are an expert in
Integration & Stakeholder
Management
10
8
6
4
2
0

14. But weak in Risk,
Communications, and
Procurement Management
10
8
6
4
2
0

15. And here is another Project
Manager
10
8
6
4
2
0

16. An expert in Human Resource
and Communications
Management
10
8
6
4
2
0

17. But weak in Risk, Quality,
Procurement and Integration
Management
10
8
6
4
2
0

18. If you hire either one of these
individuals, you get the whole
package.

19. Their areas of expertise

20. And their areas of
weakness

21. But if you hire a project
management consultant,
they put together a team of
Project Managers,

22. Each with their own areas of
expertise
10
8
6
4
2
0

23. So you receive expert Project
Management in every area.
10
8
6
4
2
0

24. MISTAKE #3: PUTTING ALL
YOUR EGGS IN ONE
BASKET

25. Ever heard of the lottery
factor?

27. What would be the impact
if your Project Manager
disappeared?

28. A project management
consultant reduces this
risk in multiple ways

29. 1
We have a team
approach,
keeping
multiple Project
Managers
involved

30. 1 2
We have a team
approach,
keeping
multiple Project
Managers
involved
We have the
systems and
processes in
place to keep
project
documents in a
safe, secure,
and central
location

31. 1 2 3
We have the
systems and
processes in
place to keep
project
documents in a
safe, secure,
and central
location
We have access
to a large pool
of alternate and
back up Project
Managers
We have a team
approach,
keeping
multiple Project
Managers
involved

32. So in summary,

33. If you want to stop:

34. 1
Paying Project Managers
to twiddle their thumbs
OR pushing them into
stress leave
I want to stop

35. Paying Project Managers
to twiddle their thumbs
OR pushing them into
stress leave
1
2 Settling for insufficient
Project Management
I want to stop

36. Paying Project Managers
to twiddle their thumbs
OR pushing them into
stress leave
1
2
3 Gambling with the
Settling for insufficient
Project Management
success of your project
I want to stop

37. You need to hire
a project
management
consultant