Project Management: Managing a Project Manager

Brent Huntsinger

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Welcome to our series on Project Management. There _______________________
are a number of different Project Management
methodologies but these series will take a “general _______________________
overview” approach to Project Management. In this
course we’ll talk about managing a project manager. _______________________
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goal _______________________
 Train employees to manage projects _______________________
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understand employee charters
 Project charters
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 Planning resources _______________________
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Setting timelines
Negotiation
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 Communication _______________________
 Measuring progress
 Handling changes _______________________
 Dealing with people problems
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before assigning project manager _______________________
 Do you trust them? _______________________
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Are you comfortable?
Can you have candid conversations with them?
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good qualities
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 Proven leader
 Good communicator _______________________
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Enthusiasm
Calm under pressure
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 Comfortable delegating tasks _______________________

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 Project Management: Managing a Project Manager
Brent Huntsinger

check in
 Don’t hover _______________________
 Empower them
 Ask for regular updates _______________________
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issues
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 Retrain
 Set up a timeline _______________________
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Hold them accountable
Help them break it down
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try not to
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 Switch project managers mid-project
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managing requires _______________________
 Planning _______________________
 Flexibility
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