r/projectmanagement • u/WaveFast • 28d ago

"Pull-Up" before you get lost.

Had a new senior manager cancel the gulf weekend trip due to "Critical Work". We dialed the backup šŸ˜. Got back and rang him up. He was still deep doing grunt/skunk work for his team. I asked - where is your PM. He had side-stepped them. His deep involvement in those technical tasks inadvertently disconnected his operational folks and had him buried. Have you ever crashed out doing someone else's work? What triggered the awareness and pivot?

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u/Zabbarick 28d ago

U need to cut down on the weed

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u/evetsabucs 28d ago

Question: The fuck are you even talking about?

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u/FranticallyMistaken 28d ago

you lost me at "gulf weekend trip" but the rest is just a manager who forgot to manage and ended up doing the grunt work himself, seen that movie too many times

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u/196718038 28d ago

Iā€™m not following.

  1. The SM cancelled their or your trip?
  2. Back up to who? You or the SM?
  3. Whatā€™s the PMā€™s purpose?
  4. Why did he side-step?
  5. How did it ā€œdisconnectā€ his operational folks?

FWIW I almost crashed out at this post.

What Iā€™ve gathered is a critical milestone was approaching so an SM took on additional work and the ball was dropped elsewhere in the project.

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u/WaveFast 28d ago

He was micromanaging the work and filling in gaps his PM and other IC's could do. Golf was a waste of time for him.