Proactive vs Reactive Project Management

Firas Raouf

March 17, 2010

Just finished reading Scott Johnson’s blog post on Proactive vs Reactive Project Management…

Reactive project management is all about looking at past activities to determine what needs to be done next. It invariably becomes an exercise in firefighting.

Proactive Project Management is a focus on asking “What is about to go wrong?” The answer to this question lies in one’s ability to see the impact of current progress (or lack thereof) on FUTURE activities in projects. 

High performance expansion stage companies tend to be obsessively focused on operational excellence in creating competitive advantage. Building a great software company is a lot more than building a great product and development team.

The Chief Executive Officer

Firas was previously a venture capitalist at Openview. He has returned to his operational roots and now works as The Chief Executive Officer of Everteam and is also the Founder of <a href="http://nsquaredadvisory.com/">nsquared advisory</a>. Previously, he helped launch a VC fund, start and grow a successful software company and also served time as an obscenely expensive consultant, where he helped multi-billion-dollar companies get their operations back on track.