Project Management will end the Global Recession!

Sorry not to post in so long. I have been very busy working to end the Global Recession. I am currently working on a software project in APAC out of Singapore and Shanghai.

Project Management is key to ending the speculation of economists and other talking heads in the media. They have big fat salaries and even fatter heads that speculate about when the recession will end.

Everyone in media has given their strategy about how to end the recession. Most have not gone more than an inch deep to explain what is going on or not going on. They can flip through their college econ text to talk it up before the next commercial (the revenue that pays those fatheads their fat salaries like O'Reilly and those other Fox yahoos ). Of course, so many who are sought out for comment by the media have a political comment or two that poisons rather than heals the lives of everyday people who are suffering in these times. My late Grandmother predicted a Great Depression like event that would come in my lifetime. That was before outsourcing came to the USA. That was before the dot.com bubble (I got that joke of a $300 check from Bush in 2001). That was before Wall Street, AIG (a bit more than $300 from Bush), Madoff, and all the other crooks who want to live like kings.

The heavy lifting in this recession like any other is done by Project Managers across all business sectors. They have to have a plan, and they have to make sure it gets results everyday. Many Project Managers use Earned Value Management and Analysis to keep control of precious budget resources on their projects. Can you imagine if EVM was used on Wall Street or by any of the banks, insurance firms, or investments firms that got confused about their core mission, profit over the past few years? Instead, they spent money as if they had no bottom to their pockets, and then reached into our pockets for bail outs! They are supposed to be corporate Republican Fat Cats not socialists! At least that is what they told me over the years when I asked for a raise.

When you are out there working as a Project Manager, your resources are finite and have to be cared for or they will run through your fingers like sand. Have you got an updated Project Plan? Have you got a WBS that is detailed to a level that you can manage work packages for full compliance to the budget plan, standards, and within the master schedule? Do you have a Project Communications Plan? I think you know as well as I do, without your tool kit, you will not get the results you want, and your stakeholders short fuse will blow, and the project risks will mount until the project fails.

Project Managers know how to end this recession now! Move out of the way strategists and media fatheads. We have rolled our sleeves up and will plan, do, check....Good luck!