I attended an offsite training today at Vancouver Golf Club on project managment.\u00a0 The course itself is more or less the same old stuff I read from the book “Rapid Development”.\u00a0 However, the environment is really nice and a tasty lunch is included.\u00a0 That place is classy golf club that require dress code, no jeans are allowed.\u00a0 Since we are all engineers who love to jeans, we got kicked out from the place by 4:30p.m, so we won’t disturb the dinner customers.\u00a0 The material in the course is useful, having an instructor giving presentation is better than reading on your own, and I could always use the review.\u00a0 This course has lots of workshop sessions with group discussion on work place sceniro.\u00a0 It turns out everyone complains alot the malfunction in managmennt practice in PMC during the workshop session.\u00a0 We all understand the value of the project managment principle taught in the class, the problem is that our bosses don’t get the same idea.\u00a0 Sadly, the instructor agree with us that something is really wrong with the management work flow in PMC.\u00a0 She told us to follow the project management best practice, but it won’t solve our problem.\u00a0 In the ideal management world, once you have done your part raising the issues to your manager, you should not be accountable to the project failure.\u00a0 Here in PMC, the management only look at and reward the result, regardless who suppose to be accountable.\u00a0 The instructor tried to comfort us saying that PMC has improved quite a bit since she teach this class a few years ago.\u00a0 If the high up doesn’t see the problem and inititate the change, it is useless to give this kind of project managment course to the people down below.\u00a0 I wonder is this project managment training really try to teach you something useful or just part of the corporate brain washing scam making the workers more obedience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"