Errors include:
• Focusing on asking for percent complete
• Holding "go around the room" type status meetings
• Spending most of your time babysitting team members by constantly checking on them
• Asking to cut io percent off the estimate
• Thinking a bar (Gantt) chart is a project management plan
• Not attempting to obtain finalized requirements
• Not getting real resource commitments
• Not having a reward system
• Not focusing on quality
• Not having a control system
• Not having management plans
• Not measuring against the project management plan, or even creating metrics
• Not spending time finding and eliminating root causes of problems or deviations
• Not implementing corrective action to keep the project in line with the project management plan
• Not reevaluating the effectiveness of the project management plan
• Not reevaluating the accuracy or completeness of schedule, cost, scope
• Ignoring resource managers' need to have their people do their own departments' work
• Not realizing the project can affect the reputation of team members
• Not realizing the project manager has some human resource responsibilities to the project team, such as project job descriptions and adding letters of recommendation to team members* human resource files
• Blaming unrealistic schedules on management instead of realizing they are the project manager's responsibility
• Focusing on asking for percent complete
• Holding "go around the room" type status meetings
• Spending most of your time babysitting team members by constantly checking on them
• Asking to cut io percent off the estimate
• Thinking a bar (Gantt) chart is a project management plan
• Not attempting to obtain finalized requirements
• Not getting real resource commitments
• Not having a reward system
• Not focusing on quality
• Not having a control system
• Not having management plans
• Not measuring against the project management plan, or even creating metrics
• Not spending time finding and eliminating root causes of problems or deviations
• Not implementing corrective action to keep the project in line with the project management plan
• Not reevaluating the effectiveness of the project management plan
• Not reevaluating the accuracy or completeness of schedule, cost, scope
• Ignoring resource managers' need to have their people do their own departments' work
• Not realizing the project can affect the reputation of team members
• Not realizing the project manager has some human resource responsibilities to the project team, such as project job descriptions and adding letters of recommendation to team members* human resource files
• Blaming unrealistic schedules on management instead of realizing they are the project manager's responsibility