am always on the lookout for great group facilitation techniques that are available on the web. In this weeks Shrink Tours I share two of such tools and the best article on facilitation I have read in a long time. The first thing I do when I visit a large foreign city is … take …
I propose a new version of the famous story about the “Three Blind Men And The Elephant” to illustrate Project Leadership. I wrote about it on Gantthead. “The original goes roughly like this: Three blind men that are describing an elephant by just touching the animal. The first one feels its trunk and thinks it …
A while ago I wrote “Rules Rule.” at Gantthead.com: “For years I thought I hated rules. But I realized, I absolutely adore them. … … before you can bent rules, you have to study them. Learn them. Know them. And I love studying them. Rules provide you with a sense of expectations. And meeting stakeholders …
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 …
Photography: Sylt August by knudsburg With large groups and a lot of time pressure you don’t always spend enough effort in communicating the overall perspective of the project. Too bad, because emphasizing the “bigger picture” helps stakeholders to keep in line and, if done properly, enhance motivation among the team (they wanna be part of …