Experience is a great teacher they say – and they say it right. Some of my recent experiences on project/team communication have been learning lessons for me. I think it is really crucial to have sound communication practices (both personal communication as well as project communication) to make our work life easier. The lessons? Here […]
Via post “The Career Manifesto” from Michael Wade’s blog ExecuPundit.com “Although your title may be the same, the job that you were hired to do three years ago is probably not the job you have now. When you are just coasting and not thinking several steps ahead of your responsibilities, you are in dinosaur territory […]
Hal Macomber over at “Reforming Project Management” blog has written an intriguing post “Silence — One of the Two Great Wastes™ — Is a Project and Career Killer” – in the crux of it, “not speaking” and “not listening” are two great wastes that kill projects and often careers. Excellent! Very recently, I experienced the […]
10 Unbreakable Rules for Project Success via Reforming Project Management blog. Know what you are doing Know why you are doing it Be prudent, honest and prepared Play to your strengths Know how to navigate Know how to communicate Know how to succeed Know how to fail Know when the project is over Know how to learn
When someone is unhappy in your team, be swift in actions to deal with the problem because negativity of one team member (“bad apple”) reverberates in the entire team. In case of teams, negatives spread faster than positives and it is a manager’s challenge to spread the positives as fast and balance the overall positivism […]
Watts Humphrey says: “The problems of software process change are often complicated bythe fact that no one is responsible to make it happen. If software process improvement isn’t anybody’s job, it is not surprising that it doesn’t get done! If it is important enough to do, however, someone must be assigned the responsibility and given […]
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 […]