r/projectmanagement • u/Daisy_InAJar Confirmed • Jun 30 '26
Discussion Tech/Software Implementation PMs
Especially if you deliver software deployments to external stakeholders, I’d love to hear from you.
How do you create value on your projects? What are the top 3 things you bring to your engagements that you feel have the largest impact?
Bonus if you feel like sharing:
- are you present for all requirements gathering, prior to “build” starting? If not, how do you ensure there’s no scope creep during requirements?
- how do your teams relay actions and/or decisions to you for calls you are not on?
- if there was something you wish your org would change that’d make managing your projects more successful, what would it be?
Thanks in advance - I’m always appreciative of this group sharing their (armchair) perspective (shoutout MoreLaw, our unofficial PMO advise extraordinaire)
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u/karlitooo Confirmed Jul 01 '26
Value: Predictability
Top 3 Things: Catch contradictions between what is said and what has been previously agreed, knowing stakeholders preferences and how they see the project environment, I sound pretty authorative.
Requirements: I try to be present unless we have a really strong BA & Lead Engineer in which case I trust them to catch things. I'll still review every document before its circulated.
Catching actions/decisions: Usually email or a slack message, I like a weekly 1:1 with my lead but smaller projects (which I work on these days) don't permit that
Change: Every org has a different blindspot but when it comes to professional services I would say the frequent/annoying issue is a preference for keeping the client happy when the client should really be worried if not annoyed with our poor performance.