I have a favor to ask. The past year I had many conversations about Adventure Mapping, that is the use of storytelling to engage in participative project planning, as some pointed out. In any case, it’s a highly playful, interactive and intuitive way of communicating complex elements in your project. The same technique applied to …
The “commenting”-function in social media is very powerful. You are not only able to motivate authors by providing encouraging feedback, comments also help evolve the original content, concept or idea (meme if you want). This is about feedback mechanisms in social networks, a topic I discuss frequently with Ali Anani. In “A Four-Pronged Approach To …
I talked before about the importance of getting into the habit of leaving comments on posts and other media. My friend Ali Anani takes it even a step further in his great presentation “Comments On Slideshare Their Mapping and Value Added. Comments On SlideShare Their Mapping And Value Added View more presentations from Ali Anani. …
In this episode of the Project Shrink podcast I explain a great exercise to help you improve your feedback skills. The exercise is free and can be done from the comfort of your own home! Awesome. For more details about the podcast, like subscribing with iTunes, please visit ProjectShrink.com.
In order to have a “happy project,” a software project manager should respect the flow of the stakes… Stakeholders have stakes. Stakeholders communicate their stakes by expressing their expectations, which are more formally defined by means of requirements to the process or product. Project management should make every stakeholder a winner by accepting and inventing …