Project Management is Storytelling
When I think of great authors in history, I think of big brained creatives, creatives who were more like hippies than like me (in my day-time form that I assume between 9–5 Monday to Friday). When you’re managing a project you’re the author ✍️. You’re the nexus of information that ties the multiple threads of information across dimensions of time, space and people together. The publisher may have solicited you to write a particular type of book, but when it comes to the implementation of that vision, it’s you as the project manager that has the power to make it successful or to let it crash and burn and fall out of the eyes of historians eager for an excuse to document your work. Again, you are the nexus of information, the only person on the entire project who has a sense of everything that’s going on in the past, present, future, and everything to do with the plot, the characters and the world you’re building. Remember, it is plot, characters and world building you’re dealing with even if you’re transacting in business jargon like “critical path,” “people management,” and “project plan.”
So how can I possibly make a project successful if I’m a first time project manager?…click here to read the rest.
