Sport and project management

A project is like a human being: it is born, it has a DNA that describes the overall goals, but then after the first days it start developing a character and personality defined by the people working together as a team. Sometimes it gets sick and needs treatments to restore it, but if well treated it will be stronger for the future diseases. It needs food and rewards; it needs new development and some freedom for creativity. It also needs discipline though, otherwise it will get slothful, go over budget, or produce low quality results. In order to monitor and educate the project, there are some vital parameters to check, but some other parameters are not measurable. A good project manager can feel the status of the project just spending as much time as possible with it, with the people of the team.