[maddog55]

Project Managers is a person put ion charge of a project to manage.

More often than not they don’t know a damn thing about the project only what they have read or have been told.

Somewhere in the project process they’ll find a way to make their mark on the project so they can say “see what I did” which in turns leads to cost overruns, schedule slides, reduction in requirements and a product moving to something that doesn’t resemble anything it started out to be.

In the end the project manager that did all this will be moved to another project to F that up or be promoted.

Trump isn’t a Project Manager. He’s a business man with common sense and a vision on how to achieve it.

[MonicaG]

Thank you EQAndyBuzz, I love your summary & agree 100%! I have had the privilege of supporting awesome PMs on civil engineering planning, design, and construction projects, and have also noticed what an excellent PM our President Trump is! He TOTALLY gets it, has the experience & drive, and is so successful!

Maddog55, I also agree with you 100%... unfortunately, after more than a decade supporting AWESOME Technical PMs that clients & staff love, complete award-winning projects, enable multidisciplinary teams to accomplish awesome things, and mentor junior staff... I am now at a firm with such bad leadership & rude/arrogant Technical Managers that they created a whole new “PM” department. Just so the TMs can continue their rudeness on the work instead of client communication. These are the nightmare PMs you describe. They don’t understand the projects, have an overwhelming workload, etc.

Yes, I will be moving on shortly - after the election/holidays/COVID shutdowns, but it’s Night vs. Day comparing the two types of “Project Managers” certified by PMI.

[joe fonebone]

I am a retired project manager, and what you state makes no sense..
A project manager is usually an engineer or equivalent, and is intimately familiar not only with the project but the associated industry.

Your ignorance is staggering

[Slainte]

A communications plan in the PM's eyes is the most critical piece. Who gets to see the project's status? The media, nor the Democrats could comprehend that their exclusion of receiving project status was based on who the stakeholders were, and the media and DNC were not stakeholders. They were a risk and an impediment and Trump mitigated the risk by taking his message directly to the people from his Twitter account. His Stakeholders.

Your professional experience differs significantly from mine. In my projects, everyone gets to see the project status- for better or worse- on a Project, Excel/Sharepoint or BI dashboard or even Post It Note whiteboard for everyone to see- at their convenience, not mine.

I've always found transparency to be critical. I never had a situation where keeping information from a stakeholder- no matter how adversarial- worked to make the project more successful.