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Tuesday September 18, 2018 – Proactively contact internal partners prior to launching client kickoff meeting

Today, I felt abandoned and embarrassed as I thought I was ready when I setup my project kickoff client meeting without making sure my technical partners where present (by accepting my meeting invite) and engaged in our new project.

As part of my personal checklist, I completely disregarded the notion that all my technical partners had received and acknowledged their attendance to my client kickoff meeting.     

Refer to Lessons Learned Section

Project manager should allow enough time ahead of the meeting to allow participants and others to gather or compile information for reference. It is best practice to contact internal partners and discuss ideas and valuable information for reference.

Gathering preliminary information and lessons learned meetings are key success criteria for implementing continuous improvement. These reviews give everyone a chance to freely discuss the good and bad aspects of the project so that good practices are repeated and bad practices are eliminated.