Ever tried to have a conversation while your aunt Edna is yapping, loud, having a chat with someone else one feet away? It’s hard to concentrate when another conversation is interfering with yours. Your communication channel gets polluted. Aunty Edna isn’t aware of what see is doing. She didn’t intend to sabotage my conversation. I …
It is important for a project to have a specific culture. It is the culture of a group that determines what we think is essential and how we interact with others. It’s how we do thing around here. But not all individuals like the same culture. People have preferences. Some like plan-driven approaches. Some like …
The current project environment requires Project Leadership. Previously I described the elements of Project Leadership as: Goals and Means on individual, project and organizational level Alignment of goals and means on all levels by communication This may sound like something you haven’t done before. But believe me, you do this almost every day. Example: The …
Edit: Just to make sure… this is not “real” advice. This is just a sarcastic post about behavioral patterns and it should illustrate for example why you must be clear on goals and tasks. It should make you more aware, so you can spot these patterns. [SARCASM] Project Managers and Middle Managers have the tendency …
It might not come as a surprise for you, after all those articles that I wrote about this subject, but if in a project I have to follow a procedure just-because-the-company-says-so we have a serious problem. I can try to comply, and I may even pull it of for a couple of days. But there …