A Project Manager plays multiple roles in the organization. He or she has a role towards the team, towards the project, towards the business stakeholders and towards the organization itself. The days of traditional project management evangelizing the concepts of "Command & Control" are long gone. Especially with Agile software development, the focus is more and more on building self managed teams. Being a project manager I can understand that it is easy for the project manager to lose his or her mind. Especially if you are under constant pressures of reporting project financials, status reporting, managing your project staffing & recruitment, stakeholder management, distributed teams, risk management, project planning, inceptions, lift-offs, project governance and to top it all, leading a group of different psychological beings who may be responding differently in different situations. There is no one size fits all when it comes to working with human beings, and you have the onus to build a self managed team. Hence, probably it is more apt to call our breed as project leaders than managers, but let us leave that discussion to a different day. So if you are a project manager and getting stressed due the above mentioned pressures, or if you are clinging to the past styles of project management or you like being "old school", you may not realize but you might have turned into a devil. How to be sure? Well... this session will offer you a checklist to confirm how close you are to being a devil or already have become one.

1. Project Manager from
Hell
Munish
Malik
Project
Manager,
Agile
Coach
Crest,
Pune

2. Are you losing your
Mind?
Project
Financials
Status
Reporting
Inception
Lift-offs
Expectations
from Senior
Management
Project
Governan
ce
Recruitm
ent
Stakeholder
Management
Leading
the team
Distributed
Teams
Release
Plan
Risk
Management
Retrospective
Project
Plan
Agile
Framework

3. “Only I talk to the stakeholders!”

4. “Why have you still not done
it?”
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5. “Umm… That’s a great idea!
UNFORTUNATELY…”

6. “That was MY Idea!”

7. The favorite
question:
“What’s the
STATUS?”

8. “I told you that you will fail… Haha…
But you didn’t listen to ME”

9. “I make all decisions!”

10. “Why are you late today?”
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11. That’d be great

12. Umm, yeah, if you could just go ahead make
sure you do this from now on, That’d be Great.

13. Oh, and remember: Next Friday is Traditional
Day. So, you know, if you want to, go ahead &
wear a traditional dress, then, That’d be Great.

14. Umm, yeah, I’m gonna need you to come
in on Saturday

15. and if you could come on Sunday too,
then, That’d be Great

16. and if you could start that meeting at 8 AM
and stay until 6PM then,
That’d be Great.

17. “No major updates from the
stakeholders management meeting.”
Keeps the team in the dark

18. The other team’s velocity is getting
higher guys...

19. Why is the story a 5… looks more like a 2
pointer to me…

20. Committing to business without
consulting with the team

22. PM plays many roles
Role of a PM towards the team

23. • Build a team of
motivated
professionals
• Set a clear goal
• Let technical
people make
technical
decisions
• Don’t pretend
that you can
write code better
than your team

24. • Make sure the team has
everything they need to
get the work done
• Remove blockers to the
team the project
• Empower the team to
make decisions take
initiatives
• Facilitate effective
communication amongst
the team members

25. Servant Leader:
• Value diverse opinions
• Cultivate a culture of
trust
• Develop other leaders
• Help people with life
issues (not just work
issues)
• Encourage
• Think long-term
• Act with humility

26. That’d be great ;)
Munish Malik
Project Manager
Agile Coach
Crest, Pune.
munish.malik@crest.in
munishmalik@gmail.com
http://www.slideshare.net/munishm