Project Management Sayings – Rewind
March 17, 2010
Part 1 - I thought the statements below made a lot of sense, or were humorous. Look for part two next week. Good estimators aren't modest: if it's huge they say so. The sooner you begin coding the later you finish. A verbal contract isn't worth the... Read more...
Focus on What Matters
March 15, 2010
You can’t be a good project manager if you are constantly distracted by negative thoughts and negative people. Choose today to get back to some of the basics of what it means to be centered. A few lessons I have learned are listed below: Surround yourself... Read more...
Discipline Gets Project Results
March 7, 2010
One of the things that hurt project teams most is the lack of an enterprise focus and oversight regarding the management of projects. It takes discipline to manage projects, and enterprise project discipline is lacking when executives are disinterested... Read more...
Great People
February 27, 2010
What common behaviors or attributes turn ordinary people into great people? Here are a few I have assembled from various sources, including Tom Peter’s book "Reinventing Work, The Project 50" . Great people almost always have had some of the traits... Read more...
No Fun at Work?
February 22, 2010
Back in 1940 a man by the name of John Gallo, an assembly worker at Ford Motor Company, was fired after being "caught in the act of smiling". He had been warned on a previous occasion for "laughing with others". At that time Ford's workers weren't... Read more...
Groups, Values and Toxic Turkeys
February 17, 2010
I really liked George Carlin's last book; "Last Words - A Memoir". In it he wrote the following, which I find very scary and very profound all at once. "The worst thing about groups are their values...you will do things in the name of a group that... Read more...
Technology Questions
February 15, 2010
Marshall McLuhan said “first we shape our tools and then they shape us.” Sometimes how we are "shaped" by technology isn't pleasant or what we were expecting. We need to keep in mind that technology for technologies' sake will never deliver... Read more...
Freedom of the Press – Around the World
February 10, 2010
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Does your Project Still have Value (revisited)
February 10, 2010
Are you working on a project that has diminished in value? If you or others are questioning the value of one of your projects, think about these things: What would happen in your organization if the project were cancelled? Would some of the cancelled... Read more...
Basic Team Communications
February 8, 2010
Do you know the difference between objective and subjective language/information? Objective information is precise and uses specific targets or numbers/indicators to help ensure the communication is clear. Subjective language uses unclear or non-specific... Read more...