Here are some other things you might like to consider before you start: If you’re a project manager, how many of these are you guilty of? Is there a phrase here that makes your teeth itch?

So here, for your entertainment, we present Project Management Bingo!Ĭlick on the image above for a printable bingo card that you can take into the next project that you’re involved in and see how many items you can check off.

Here at the Everyday Project Manager, we think it’s only right that we should acknowledge these foibles, warts and all, and have a little fun with them! And sometimes it can be a little ugly – we’ve all been in the meetings where we want to hide under the table, right? Sometimes it is not so good (for example, see the section on ‘Weasel Words’ in Chapter 8 of my book). Sometimes this is good and can help people get to a shared understanding or a decision more quickly. We have shared experiences and a linguistic shorthand for many of the things that we do. Being part of the project management environment is like being part of a (not terribly exclusive) club. Like any profession, Project Management can often create its own language and idioms that result from the work that we do.

Office word bingo