Where does this project manager go for help?

A practical matter is that all project managers will encounter a project that just doesn't go as planned.  What do you do when it's your turn in the barrel of project misfortune? You may gain some insight from this article originally posted on 12/15/2010 1:57 PM By Brian Munroe . 

Taken from the MTI Learning blog.  http://www.mtilearning.com/     Projects can run into trouble at any time and for any number of good reasons.  While I spend time coaching others, traveling to speaking engagements, and talking about troubled projects, I still actively manage a few key projects of my own for my clients.  I never want to be the guy on stage saying, “…back when I managed projects…..”  This does not lend itself to any kind of creditability.  Therefore, I actively manage projects. So one of the questions I get asked often is, “Brian, do your projects ever fall into trouble?”  The answer, “Yes they do.”  The difference is what I do about them and who’s advice I seek when the root cause is escaping me.  It does not matter who you are, when its your own project, often the simplest of solutions is hard to see because of the level of emotional involvement you have in that particular project.  Its your baby and you hate to see it in trouble. As ...

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