My mother used to chide me “Michael, self praise is no praise at all!”. When I congratulated myself on achieving something as a child; or if the truth be known, also as a adult. Well at the risk of invoking her comments from heaven, I will congratulate the team and myself on our first full [...]
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Here is a summary of posts for this week. Version and Revision Control defined Posted in Change Management, Process Discovery, Project Management on May 5th, 2011 Seems like an obvious question but which version should I use? There has been few areas since the introduction of record and document management systems, where so many mistakes [...]
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Seems like an obvious question but which version should I use? There has been few areas since the introduction of record and document management systems, where so many mistakes can be made. Ensuring that someone has the right information at the right time can save time, money and reduce risk dramatically. If someone has the [...]
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The big picture Processes are such a big topic it’s often difficult to know where to start. People have a different view of processes depending on where they are coming from. For example, if you ask a manufacturing engineer about their view of processes, it is likely focused on what it takes to make something. [...]
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Posted in Process Mapping on Apr 19th, 2011
Getting started with processes Getting Started with processes is often a messy affair. Usually we have a number of factors that cause us to pay attention to this issue. These include: Someone or something is making us document our processes Our process is broken and needs to be fixed Everyone has a different idea of [...]
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One way to ensure buy-in for the project is to transfer goals and responsibilities during the kick-off meeting. Make it clear who is responsible for each task and gain acceptance during the meeting. This is an example of where relinquishing control to others in the team, will help YOU gain more control of the outcome. [...]
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Posted in Project Management on Feb 6th, 2011
Monthly Archive for February, 2011 Project Management-Assessing the need for Change Posted in Project Management on Feb 5th, 2011 The first stage is to assess the severity of the problem. If it’s not too bad then perhaps additional resources, scope change or some staff increase may solve the issue. In the same way that we [...]
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