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Planning the Project – how to massage the timeline
You have worked with the team and the sponsor to create the project WBS and finalize the scope. You’ve turned the WBS into a schedule and you’ve validated the estimates of duration. You look at the delivery date with confidence and your jaw drops. The project is going to be ready 6 months after the date you expected it.
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Trust and delegation
Why don’t people trust? Well, I’d say the 99% of the time it’s not about thinking the person won’t do a good job – their desire and motivation, but more about the can’t – about their knowledge and ability. The can’t is where you hear things like ‘it will be faster to do it myself than show someone else’ or ‘they don’t have the experience’ or ‘they don’t have the time to learn’. Continue reading
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Tagged leadership, project challenges, Teams, trust
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Communication – why is it so hard?
I’ve been looking around at blogs for inspiration for today’s post. It seems like communication is the topic of choice for bloggers. It is complex, even though it sounds simple. How hard is it to be clear, paraphrase for clarity, follow up, listen… and all the other tips people have out there. Continue reading
Are you getting the truth?
A project manager needs to hear the truth from the team and the sponsor. In a project that is making significant changes in an organization, the PM can only be successful if they get the truth. It’s not a case of “you can’t handle the truth” but more of a case of “you can handle anything as long as you get the truth.” Continue reading
Why you should welcome conflict?
Most people would say they hate and avoid conflict. In this environment of staff cuts, there are probably a lot of people ducking conflict to keep under the radar. In my experience it’s not conflict, but confrontation that people hate. Continue reading
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Tagged communication, solutions, tips, trust
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When you put the project first you put the blame game to rest
As you execute your project, you will find that things go differently than planned. Do I mean they go wrong? No, things change and to be successful you will need to adapt to the change not try to make the change adapt to you. Continue reading