think about driving skills

Project execution skills – think about driving skills. Many people know car driving and practice everyday. When you ride with some your experience is so horrible that you are scared to ride with the same driver again. When you ride with some, your drive is pleasant and you feel good about the drive. When you ride with some, your drive is so memorable, that you would like to be on that ride time and again. Project execution is no different. Every project manager has project management skills. It’s about how those skills are implemented in day to day execution of the project. Through use of project management skills, do you make the project delivery experience horrible, pleasant or memorable for all your stakeholders is the real test of those project management skills and the real measurement of success of the project manager. Road conditions, traffic situations, weather conditions are few of many parameters that will affect your drive experience but is completely out of your control. Similarly there will be many factors affecting project execution on each step and most of them will be completely out of project managers control. The probability of successful navigation through these situations without badly affecting project outcome depends on the seasoned execution skill of project manager.