Hey Project Manager, how's your integration project going? Wait, maybe you're not running an integration project. How do I know what kind of project you're running? I don't. And don't go away, because what I'm really saying to you is how is integration going for you as a project manager.
It's important that you are strategic and that you are looking out and running interference and looking for roadblocks and paying attention to how everything on your project ties together.
Whether you're still thinking of things from a perspective of process groups, bodies of knowledge, and processes, or if you're thinking in terms of the domains and what needs to be completed, you still must pay attention to how one piece of your project ties to another.
For example, when a team member identifies a risk around a supplier, do you remember to involve your procurement team and find out about that risk around the supplier? When your sponsor asks for scope that seemed like it wasn't involved in the charter, what do you do? Accept it or verify it and then discuss how that new piece of information makes what we said on the charter potentially different.
So you are in an integration project because every project you manage needs to be well integrated by you. You are the one looking over everything and seeing the strategic pattern. Ensuring that the pieces of the project management puzzle all come together.
That's you.
Wishing you every success, and looking forward to our work together in 2025.
Margaret Meloni
pmStudent Community Leader
