Good Listening skills are crucial for managers – I wish all managers followed Stephen Covey’s mantra of “Seek first to understand then to be understood”. Good understanding comes from a good listening and the quote below underlines exactly that. A wise old owl lived in an oakThe more he saw, the less he spokeThe less he […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]