It’s always good to have these kinds of reminders. I’m good at what I do, but for some projects I’m not good enough. This time a client stopped trusting me just before I started the execution part of the project.
My learning lessons.
1 I was too honest
2 You have to do the basics
3 Lack of tools
I was too honest
I’ve dealt with four managers from a group of companies on this project. You have to talk to this type of person without filters because they detect any bullshit you might tell them. At least I would have liked to have someone who would tell me at all times what the difficulties and challenges of the project are without embellishing anything. The project overseas data was certainly a challenge but I would have been perfectly capable of doing it. One of the reasons they’ve given me is that they don’t see me leading a project because I’ve said that I’m an introvert who doesn’t always need to be in the foreground.
You have to do the basics
Times have changed. Previously, this type of project would have taken me a full five-day week to complete. For this one, I had two (the crisis is noticeable). As a result, I have prioritized progress over other issues such as documentation. I have been criticized for things such as not sending meeting notes. I have been taking notes in the building power and authority presentations that I shared on my screen. Everyone could see what I was writing down. At the end, I would upload these notes to the company’s Confluence. It was the least important thing for me because I didn’t want to waste my time on documentation when I needed to detail the project, estimate the time and costs that it would take to do everything.
Lack of tools
At the beginning of the project, I said that yeezy 350 boost v2s we had to work with Jira and Confluence. The company uses Asana and they hadn’t given me access to Confluence. It’s true that I only mentioned Confluence on two occasions. I was criticized for not using the typical project management tools. It’s funny, I must say here, because of course, my tool is Jira. Just this week I had started to move all the tasks with all the details to Asana, which is quite limited compared to what Jira offers for project management (at least according to my criteria).
My conclusion is this. Have I made a perfect project? Definitely not. Have I generated the desired result? Definitely yes! The continuation of the project based on my presentation and project planning was already approved by the main management of the group.