Spending time with/for yourself
February 3rd, 2007 // 9:47 am @ Tanmay // No Comments
I came across a very beautiful photo blog of Suresh – excellent photographs coupled with some very nice thoughts to ponder over. In one of the posts, Suresh asks: When was the last time you spent time with yourself? When was the last time you just did nothing but watched birds, smelled flowers, felt breeze, hummed [...]
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Great Quotes : Managing Expectations
February 3rd, 2007 // 8:30 am @ Tanmay // No Comments
Via Seth Godin’s blog: “To raise someone’s expectations then not fulfill them is worse than mediocrity.”
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For managers – no news is not a good news
January 25th, 2007 // 7:30 am @ Tanmay // No Comments
Lisa Haneberg over at Management Craft asks a provocative question: “(As a manager) Do you have the communication practices, habits, and processes in place to ensure that you know what you need to know?” As she rightly conveys in her post, no news is not a good news when it comes to being a manager. [...]
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What takes up your time?
January 19th, 2007 // 5:40 am @ Tanmay // No Comments
I sometimes get bogged down by loads of activities – meetings, projects, clients, team and all that fills our work day. It is very easy to get trapped into the busyness of mundane activities and loose the focus on what matters the most. Sometimes, it seems we are moving too fast. How do I tackle this? I [...]
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Great Quotes : Preparation
January 19th, 2007 // 5:03 am @ Tanmay // No Comments
A Swedish maxim via Seth Godin’s blog: “There is no bad weather, just bad clothing.”
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On Sign-offs
January 16th, 2007 // 2:21 pm @ Tanmay // No Comments
Getting the sign-offs for the right things at right instances during the project cycle is extremely crucial for project success. Signoff is just another form of agreement between the project teams and the client – and in my opinion, managing a project after all is nothing but managing the agreements – with team members and also [...]
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Processes for Effectiveness
January 12th, 2007 // 11:37 am @ Tanmay // No Comments
A very simple message about processes in organizations (specially software organizations and teams) over at Clarrus Compedium: “Never build a set of procedures that can be used as an excuse for not getting the job done.” The post also emphasizes on the fact that processes should not eliminate flexibility and creativity. As I wrote in [...]
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The People vs. Process Debate
January 10th, 2007 // 2:01 pm @ Tanmay // One Comment
People or Processes? Having done software development, people management and process improvement all these years, I have participated in number of debates related to people vs. processes. I have even faced conflicting situation in past working with two seniors who had totally different views on processes and people. One was extremely process oriented whilst other [...]
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A New Year Writing Resolution
January 8th, 2007 // 12:53 pm @ Tanmay // No Comments
A writing resolution each project manager should take this new year. Here’s the crux: Review the content of the email atleast thrice before sending. Review the original text of email you are replying to. Review the TO and CC lists to ensure that mail is addressed right. “A shot arrow”, “A spoken word” and “A [...]
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Great Quotes: Humanness at work/home
December 27th, 2006 // 5:35 am @ Tanmay // One Comment
Humanness is somehow evading the high tech and highly formal workplaces where we see people being treated simply as “resources”. Tom Peters quotes “Philo of Alexandria” in his blog post “A [More or Less] Christmas [and Management] Thought”: “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.” Through this quote, Tom delivers a very strong message that compassion towards your [...]
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