Nobody wants to be called “a resource”. You’re “an employee”. “A team member”. “Part of a rag tag crew“. But not “a resource”. “Resource” brings the association of a cog in a machine. If you want to distance emotionally from people, it helps using a word like “resource”. It makes the relationship you have with …
Remember that grumpy employee that just kept on complaining about the company? Or perhaps you can recall your team mate that was just indifferent to the host organization? You don’t have to be all ecstatic about your company to do a good job – although it would help. But real negativity and indifference can be …
The blog archive is my extended brain. It helps me to remind what I was thinking. What was I thinking? It helps me to remind what I think is a true “agile” PM. I decided on this four years ago: “To be able to create assumptions and being able to reason to what happens based …
If two people have the same view of the their world, hold similar belief systems, in other words, have congruent mental models, they understand each other with ease. Congruent mental models stimulate effective communication. If you want to synchronize your model with that of your conversation partner, you are looking for clues about his believe …
We all know what we “should” do to run a project. Putting the right structures and processes in place. Getting the proper authorizations and doing communication and stuff. But sometimes we are operating in unknown organizations. Sometimes we think we have the right authority, but in reality we don’t. Sometimes we just get a team …