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They say write what you know. This is what I know. Hopefully, this does not turn out to be desperately boring.

You are a project manager of some experience.

Which is why you are worried

Your company has asked you to “just get us started” on a substantial project, though the final contract terms have not been settled.

Madness

You have warned them that this is a bad idea, but management insists. They explain they are confident that you can handle it.

You know the odds are not in your favor

Project managers can ask, but they cannot compel. Their greatest strength comes from speaking truth in meetings.

Document everything.

Litza Bronwyn3 years ago(+2)

it crossed my mind that a game based in an office setting where you just have to survive cubicle life could be fun, and this sounds awesome!

Deus Ex Minima3 years ago

Glossary of Project Management Terms

Company - your employer. By definition, always right.
Client - your employer’s employer. By definition, also always right.
Stakeholder - one of the bosses (either Client or Company) paying attention to the project. Often, they want the project to succeed.
Senior Stakeholder - like a demi-god, reality shifts in their presence. They do not care about the project, they only want the outcome the project will bring them, and as far as they are concerned, you were already late when the project started.
Project - a business activity with a hopeful beginning, a stressful middle, and a ruthlessly pragmatic end
Risk Register - a document summarizing all the ways a project can fail, in the vain hope that those failures will be avoided
Project Manager - a highly organized wretch, practised at both hope and disappointment
Project Management - the art of making tradeoffs that nobody likes then explaining them to people who don’t want to hear it

Deus Ex Minima3 years ago

Totally falling down a rabbit hole here, trying to model budget and schedule risk in a deck of cards. Think I'm going to pull back out of that. Maybe that's the game I make next. :D

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Glossary of Project Management Terms