Monthly Archive for February, 2011
Communications Breakdowns-How to avoid them
Our post of yesterday talked about individuals who cause problems because of their communication habits. These six best practices help avoid these habits occurring in your project. Clearly document the communication process for your project. This may the second most important document in your process. Document the methodology you are using for the project. This [...]
Communication breakdowns-Driving them out of the process
A high percentage of communication problems in projects and processes are avoidable. Because EVERYONE, and I mean EVERYONE has a different personality when it comes to communicating, breakdowns occur. Perhaps you can identify these communication personalities: The electronic wiz. The silent not verbal type who only wants to communicate via email or instant messenger. The [...]
Alternative Strategies for Change-The call of inspiration
The Call of Inspiration is a strategy that sometimes works for macro level change. John F. Kennedy’s speech in Berlin, Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” and Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address all fall into the category of a “Inspirational call” that worked in a very big way. How do we make this “major call [...]
SOX Compliance for Small and Medium Business operations
With the burden of compliance especially challenging for middle-to-small sized companies, knowing what questions to ask and having a benchmark to gauge readiness is critical to understanding how big the SOX compliance project is going to be. We have been working our our one of our business partners on a new Edition of TaskMap that [...]
Evangelization and Project Management
How can Evangelization help your project be successful? Remember back in the day when Apple was the hippest company on the planet and new hires often got the title of Evangelist? Not that long ago, and it appears they did pretty well. Interestingly enough, the principals of evangelization can be applied to your project, and [...]
When your project running over budget … what do you do?
Budgets are interesting things. In larger organizations almost all decisions are controlled by some sort of budgeting or expenditure controls. Regardless of what process your organization is following, the success or failure of a project is often determined by getting it done on time and on budget. When costs start to get out of control, [...]
