1. Classic Project Management
Mistakes

2. People - Related Mistakes
● Undermined motivation
● Weak personnel
● Adding people to a late project
● Noisy, crowded offices
● Unrealistic expectations
● Politics over substance

3. Process - Related Mistakes
● Insufficient risk management
● Insufficient planning
● Omitting necessary tasks from estimates
● Wasted time during fuzzy front end
● Code-like-hell programming

4. Product - Related Mistakes
● Requirements gold-plating
● Feature creep
● Developer gold-plating
● Push-me, pull-me negotiation
● Research-oriented development

5. Technology - Related
Mistakes
● Overestimated savings from new tools and
methods
● Switching tools in mid-project
● Lack of automated source-code controldd text

6. Interractions/Stakeholders
As a PM you interract with:
● Project Stakeholders
● Project sponsor
● Executives
● Team (developers and maybe others)
● Customers
● Contractors (as needed)
● Functional managers