The interesting thing about practicing project management is that we often don’t do the same tasks in the same order every day, we shuffle between different tasks to serve the project in the best possible way targeting to eventually achieve its objectives, we have the flexibility to tailor our daily tasks according to the followed methodology and project need.
For me as a project manager the first thing that I do is to check my prioritized tasks list of the day, some of them might already have reserved slots on my calendar according to the needed time for execution and my available time, the daily tasks are usually planned beforehand such as a due issue action item, a mitigation plan execution for a certain risk, a meeting that I need to prepare for, or a due management activity related to the project. The priority of the daily tasks might change according to the daily important events that take place and need our intervention, however, it’s important for us as project managers to drive the change and not be driven by events in our projects and this requires a previously planned proactive effort for the project activities and expected events.