NEW DATE – due to Hurricane Matthew

Thursday, November 3, 2016
Fort Lauderdale, FL

Management Myths and Time Span
The Research of Elliott Jaques
presented by Tom Foster

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“When you hired George, your interview focused on the process of project management?” I pressed.

“Yes, and understanding the process is important, but not sufficient for the Operations Manager role,” Anne replied.

“What else should you have included in the interview?”

“To manage two or three projects requires knowledge and adherence to our process. That’s a project manager role. To manage ALL of our 36 projects requires building a team of competent project managers. That’s what I should have included in the interview. I never found out if George ever built a team.”

“If you had to do it over again, what questions would you ask?”

Anne paused. Then carefully generated a series of questions related to building a team.

• Tell me about a time when you built a team of project managers?
• How many people were on the team?
• How many projects did the team have to collectively handle?
• How many individual projects did a PM have to manage?
• How long were the individual projects? Shortest? Longest?
• What qualities did you look for in each team member?
• How did you assign the individual projects to each project manager?
• How often did you check in on project status with each PM?
• Step me through one of your check in meetings?
• Step me through how your PMs mobilized the start of the project?
• Tell me about a project where there were unseen problems?
• Step me through the diagnosis of those problems?
• Step me through the coaching process with the PM in charge of that project?
• How did the PM respond to the problems on that project?
• What changes did the PM make?
• What was the outcome of that project?
• Tell me about another time when you built a team of project managers?