Project Managers are those people who “”manage”” projects.
Sort of like a “stay at home” mum who organises her children’s day. Except the mum is competent, and the project manager isn’t.
Competency is an interesting sideline in itself. If someone isn’t competent, does that automatically mean that they are incompetent?
Actually no. In “training speak”, they are not yet competent. Sort of like how “deferred success” is the new phrase for “failure”.
Where was I?
Ah Project Managers! I’m working with/guiding four of them at the moment.
The competency ranges from: “oh my gawd, how do you manage to tie your shoes laces?” to “able to form five-word sentences in a single bound”.
The projects being managed are all doing the same thing for different customers, so it will be interesting to see which of the biggest losers will succeed. I’m tipping the cute (female) project manager, as she has nouse.
We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing–it can be a wonderful method of creating the illusion of progress while creating confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.
Actually that fellow should work where I do. Two phrases which stop most work requests before they hatch?
“That’s not part of my job description”
and if that fails
“Do you have an expense code for me to charge my work against?”
It’s been that kinda week. Playing a piano in a brothel would be more honest work.