What are you? Are you a technical specialist? What’s your specialty? What about your team: what’s their specialty? How would you feel if your team members tried to manage the project in your place? How would you like the software engineer trying to replan the project to meet the deadline? I bet you would not [...]
Virtual teams are a fact of today’s projects. With outsourcing and increased mobility for the workforce, there is a higher proportion of people who either work in satellite locations, or simply work from home. The project team becomes virtual. How can we keep up with everyone when we can’t see them? A huge part of [...]
A project should not be composed a leader on top and everybody else below. Actually, that's a very good way to fail. Your team is there for the project, and so are you. Why not work together? You need to work together. Be with your team. Spend time with them. Take the time to explain [...]
While working on a project, I realized the project team was not clear on the roles and responsibilities of the project sponsor VS the project manager. Who’s the sponsor anyway? The project sponsor is the person who pays for the project. Because he or she is paying for the project, they get to decide on [...]
It’s easy to get swallowed by project management tools. It’s easy to feel that we can get all the information we need from a piece of software. But it’s not true. If you want to know how well a project is going, take your team to lunch. They will tell you more about the project [...]
