Prosperous Project Management: Is it the tools, or the project manager?

Prosperous Project Management

Tips, techniques and pragmatic strategies for excellent Project Managers, Toastmasters and high personal achievers. Wayne Botha is a rare Project Manager, with passion for achieving results through Project Management, while improving inter-personal relationships, and developing Project Managers in the process. Wayne is a faculty member at Toastmsters Leadership Institute and Axia college of University of Phoenix.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Is it the tools, or the project manager?

It is not the tool that makes a good project manager.A good project manager makes a good project manager, regardless of the tool.

I see people getting hung up on the tool. Should we use MS-Project Version 2000, or 2003, or 2007?

I hear excuses of "We can't manage well, because our company only has an antiquated version of MS-Project"

Nonsense. It is not the tool. It is expertise and mindset that delivers projects.

A project manager with expertise and mindset with a pencil and napkin or Excel spreadsheet will win out over a naive project manager with MS-Project Version 2034.

Don't hide behind excuses of the tools.

If your projects are going South, then look in the mirror and get help to identify areas of weakness and learn the required skills to send your projects North again.

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Wayne Botha is one of those rare people who can say he is a project manager, author and speaker and mean it. He is a past Area Governor for Toastmasters International and an enthusiastic Toastmaster. Wayne is a faculty member of Toastmasters Leadership Institute and has trained audiences in South Africa, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and the USA. With an MBA in eCommerce, and a PMP certification, Wayne is sought out to speak at Toastmasters and Project Management conferences. Wayne's colleagues and friends often tease him about his South African accent.