Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's topic, Project Status Reporting Simple Feedback. Part 1. Here we go. Recently we've been talking about project management quite a bit. We've been talking about

the podcast but you and I personally have a great interest in this and it's really becoming something we're going to do more of in the future so I don't know what form but we'll do it.

Look organizations have done things like let's have virtual teams because it saves the company's

money let's not move everybody in the same place let's not have as many offices let's

have people distant you mean it wasn't done for a project effectiveness? Yeah, no, yeah.

What a surprise.

But even before you think, even for, before you think about projects,

it just, companies do that because, well,

we don't understand management.

And so, well, you're a manager, and so you can handle them in distant locations.

Well, it's dumb, right?

It affects productivity and we think, oh, everybody's adults, but that's not really the same thing.

So companies do all kinds of things for hypothetically

good reasons that turn out to be managerial unsound and one of them is this

idea that oh we're just going to be flatter and you're going to have more people and it's going to be more project-based and so on.

And I promise you in 20 or 30 years, it'll swing back to a more vertical structure but for now there's a mood

toward flatter organizations and matrix organizations and so projects take up a

lot of time and of course that increases politics and and the need for

communication and so on none of which are naturally

trained in companies and so it's hard.

But look, projects are projects or projects.

And it's simple.

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