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Project Manager's Behavior Analysis Template

By Dick Billows, PMP, GCA

Summary: A good WBS is not a detailed "To do" list. Using that approach lead to less control, not more, and a schedule that is too detailed to track closely.

Think of a specific troublesome recurring pattern of interaction you have with someone in particular. (The examples I gave were of  "recurring patterns" of interaction.)

Now, do a behavior analysis, but don't get bogged down in details. Just answer  these simple questions:



1. What is the other person's recurring "problem" behavior?





2. Guess what he/she Gets/Avoids/Escapes by engaging in the "problem" behavior:





3. What might you have do to to get him/her to change his/her behavior?





Incidentally, what do you get/escape/avoid for the role you have been playing in this behavior pattern?

 

 

 

 


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