A little rant about everyday business life.

I Hate My Colleagues. I Hate Project Managers.

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I am a project manager by profession. It is what I do for a living.

During the years, I collected quite an excellent portfolio of finished projects, international projects for secure communication up to the reconstruction of oil rigs. Some projects lasted for a month, and some were over a year.
Not all of them were successful. For example, I remember deploying a system for a customer, but it never got into production as they were not eager to put it to work and were not spending their money. On the other hand, we deployed one process automation system eleven years ago, and particular server handling requests increased over eleven years.

What all these projects got in common is that all of them are done using some project methodology, either “official” or something just put together to set up rules, procedures, and processes. From, now mature, Microsoft Solution Framework to PMBOK.

Of course, about one-third of started projects never get to life. What is familiar to them is that the other party, the customer, also puts their project manager. Still, usually, it was a person without motivation to finish it, without even a remote idea to learn something new, and without supervision, as I usually…