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💃 Why Do Salesforce Project Managers Struggle? 🕺
What Does Success Look Like And Why Is It Fleeting?
Salesforce ChaCha
October 09, 2023 • Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes
Good morning, Salesforce Nerds! How do you feel about your project manager 🤔?
Surely, these articles about the project manager role and Project Management Phases have enhanced all the project managers out there 👀 ?
They take a lot of heat 👿. Often, deservedly. Sometimes, not.
Let’s dive deeper into why the pm struggle is real ⬇️
How do you feel about your project manager(s)? Can they count on you for a good review? Or are you pleading the 5th?
Agenda for today includes
Why Do Salesforce Project Managers Struggle?
Daily Principle
All the Memes
Why Do Salesforce Project Managers Struggle?
Today we will discuss-
💃 Scenario A 🕺
💃 Scenario B 🕺
💃 Breakdown🕺
💃 Why Do Project Managers Struggle? 🕺
SCENARIO A
The project team is on the daily standup.
Pam, the project manager, shows up on time, but needs a minute to get her screen share going.
Then, another minute to pull up the Jira.
Then, another minute to find the Jira project that this standup is for.
Pam: “Ok, ready! Who wants to go first?”
*crickets
Pam: “Dave (the developer) how about you?”
Dave: “I worked on card 215 and 216. Later today I am meeting with you and the BA to discuss the requirements on card 230.”
*long silence. No notes taken. No cards moved.
Pam: “Ok thanks! Who’s next?….”
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SCENARIO B
The project team is on the daily standup.
Pippa, the project manager, was 2min early, and had the Jira board up on the screen.
Pippa: “It’s now 10am. I will ping Devin (the developer) to see if she is joining.”
*clickety clackety ⌨️
Pippa: “Ok she’s on her way…there she is! Let’s get started. ALL - we have 4 days left in this sprint and we are tracking well. It is imperative that our dev team completes their unit tests today so we can have our analysts begin their QA. So, Devin, where are we at with your 3 cards that I have highlighted on the board?”
Devin: “Unit tests are completed for cards 215 and 216. Later today I am meeting with you and the BA to discuss the requirements on card 230.”
*clickety clackety ⌨️
Pippa: “I have moved cards 215 and 216 to the QA column, and updated the comments that UT has been completed. Devin, please ensure you are commenting and updating statuses on these cards prior to this call. Noted for card 230, and I see your questions in the comments about the reqs, thank you for that.”
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