{"id":34495,"date":"2019-01-29T14:13:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T20:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strategymanage.com.tempdomain.com\/?p=34495"},"modified":"2020-01-30T15:46:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T21:46:43","slug":"10-common-mistakes-that-young-or-inexperienced-project-managers-make-mistake-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balancedscorecard.org\/staging\/blog\/10-common-mistakes-that-young-or-inexperienced-project-managers-make-mistake-5\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Common Mistakes That Young or Inexperienced Project Managers Make &#8211; Mistake 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t\t\t\t[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.48&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.19.17&#8243;]<h2><span style=\"color: #1d5878;\">Ignoring Problems<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/balancedscorecard.org\/staging\/Portals\/0\/images\/Wes%20Blog\/Bizwoman%20ignoring%20colleagues_350x233.png\" style=\"float: right; padding: 15px;\" \/>All projects have problems. Inexperienced project managers believe that sufficient time exists to solve these problems only to discover that the costs of correcting these problems later on in the project life cycle was significantly more expensive than making the repairs in the earlier stages of the project. Remember the 1-10-100 rule. What costs $1.00 to fix in requirements costs $10.00 to fix in planning and $100.00 to fix after the project is delivered.<\/p>\n<p>Project managers cannot be selective in which problems to solve. All project problems must be addressed, and the sooner the better. While it is true that project managers may not be able to solve the problems themselves, they should at least know what subject matter experts they need to address the issues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/strategymanage.com\/10-common-mistakes-that-young-or-inexperienced-project-managers-make---mistake-4\/\">Read mistake #4 &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/strategymanage.com\/10-common-mistakes-that-young-or-inexperienced-project-managers-make-mistake-6\/\">Read mistake #6 &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\t\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThis is the fifth part of a series of blogs which highlights the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make that could prevent your projects on being successful.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":35746,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[57,15],"class_list":["post-34495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-project-management","tag-strategy-execution"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.13 (Yoast SEO v23.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>10 Common Mistakes That Young or Inexperienced Project Managers Make - Mistake 5 - Balanced Scorecard Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/balancedscorecard.org\/staging\/blog\/10-common-mistakes-that-young-or-inexperienced-project-managers-make-mistake-5\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"10 Common Mistakes That Young or Inexperienced Project Managers Make - Mistake 5\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is the fifth part of a series of blogs which highlights the most common mistakes that young or inexperienced project managers make that could prevent your projects on being successful.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/balancedscorecard.org\/staging\/blog\/10-common-mistakes-that-young-or-inexperienced-project-managers-make-mistake-5\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Balanced Scorecard Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/StrategyManagementGroup\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-01-29T20:13:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-01-30T21:46:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/balancedscorecard.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Bizwoman-ignoring-colleagues_web.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"333\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Wes Balakian\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@BSCInstitute\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@BSCInstitute\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Wes Balakian\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/balancedscorecard.org\/staging\/blog\/10-common-mistakes-that-young-or-inexperienced-project-managers-make-mistake-5\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/balancedscorecard.org\/staging\/blog\/10-common-mistakes-that-young-or-inexperienced-project-managers-make-mistake-5\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Wes Balakian\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/balancedscorecard.org\/staging\/#\/schema\/person\/97e5e3e6b35f7c32d925a833b2a9bbcc\"},\"headline\":\"10 Common Mistakes That Young or Inexperienced Project Managers Make &#8211; 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