Guide 14: Irrational Behaviour in Project Management

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Guide 15: Status Reporting

What’s this Guide about?
A successful project is about happy stakeholders – happy in that we set their expectations correctly at the beginning of the project and then maintain and manage those expectations over the life of the project. Proper status reporting is how we maintain and manage expectations over the project lifecycle. This Guide describes proper status reporting.

How is the Guide structured?
Section 1 of the Guide describes bad and good status reports.
Section 2 gives a format for and an example of a good

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• What's this Guide about?
• How is the Guide structured?
• Irrational behaviour when the project is born
  How it manifests itself
  How to deal with it
• Irrational behaviour when the project is being planned
  How it manifests itself
  How to deal with it
• Irrational behaviour when project commitments are being made
  How it manifests itself
  How to deal with it
• Irrational behaviour when the project is running
  How it manifests itself
  How to deal with it
• Irrational behaviour in status reporting
  How it manifests itself
  How to deal with it
  

What you get

• The Guide itself