IT Project Management

Just like it happens with friends, study, war, and even love, everything on PM is related to strategy. It obviously there are many factors that could make your life easier, like experience and knowledge, but however with a very good strategy it is 100% guarantee that you will be able to deal with the worst and most dificult project. And to be clear, do a successful project management is not always related on having a good project, its about to plan, communicate and sometimes even do what has to be done.

Strategy will give you -as PM- the tools to deal with any situation, a good strategy could be have a close relationship with the sponsor in order to use the power of the sponsor to deal with problems. Another could be knowledge, if you are an experienced professional in the area of the project execution process you can lead by example or solve the issues by bringing solutions.

It should be impossible -I will not even try to do it- to have a list of strategies, however keep in mind that if you want to do a successful management of your project you should have at least a good strategy.