Hello.
I’m Funda.
I write about the rooms I have actually sat in
PMP® Project Manager working across technology, people and business.
Most of my work sits somewhere between people, processes, and what we said we would deliver. Projects rarely go exactly as planned, which is probably why I find them interesting.
This is where I write about what I learn along the way: working with teams, sponsors, vendors, and stakeholders, making decisions with imperfect information, and figuring out what to do when things don’t go as planned.
Just things I’ve seen, tried, learned, and sometimes got wrong.
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Selected writing from real project rooms.
Stakeholder Management: How to Handle Difficult Sponsors
Everything was on track until the sponsor came back from an event with a new list of features.
Tuckman’s Ladder: The 5 Stages of Team Development
A team can look fine in week one and fall apart once the real work starts. That is often normal.
Switching Vendors: Lessons I Learned from Managing Vendor Transitions
Changing vendors looks simple on paper. Find a better supplier, sign a contract, move on. It is not.
Meeting Management Tools: Small Changes That Make Team Meetings Better
Most teams spend a lot of time in meetings. A few of them leave with a clear owner and a date.
Things nobody puts in the plan:
The short version: what happened, what I learned, and what I’d do differently.
- The brief changed after everyone agreed.
- The vendor had to be replaced.
- The team stopped moving in the same direction.