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One of the exercise I learnt about this is issue is the use of echelons of Project Goals. Placing goals into echelons also helps determine the person in the client organization that can help you achieve multiple goals. Placing these echelons allow the people to see in which step of the project they are working. … Read more
Last week I had time to attend a web conference about how to get contracts implementing your projects under agile rules. I would like to remember some of the points the speaker stressed. Sell: Visibility, the customer is the person who gets the backlog and decide the next package of features to be developed. Continuous … Read more
In the Project Management environment, the PMs, team members and upper managers each have expectations of what their relationship should be with other parties. Today I would like to list what top-managers expects from PMs. It’s a generic list, not in 100% of times is right: Assume total accountability for the success or failure to … Read more
Working with new people means you have to make a time investment into the professional relationship you have with them. I always want to have the opportunity of talking with new people before they assign me responsibilities or vice versa. Have time to talk with them without pressure, some weeks (if I have engaged the … Read more
I’m taking some holidays in Vietnam, doing a lot of kilometers during the few days I have. This country save a lot of traditions of their ancestors and some other things are more evolutioned than you can expect. One of the days we did a day trip to a place named “Perfume Pagoda”, you can … Read more
I work planning the future all the time, not only when I’m working on a project, I love to trace the vision about the reactions of a client, how the people feel in the team, how people are tracing their proffesional careers. I suppose that almost everybody in these kind of positions do it. Sometimes … Read more
Reading about the implementation of a PMO, first phase needed is to create the conditions for change. As part of it, there is the need o creating a sense of urgency and economic value. Some general remarks to create this need: Failures in projects (low trust, bad income…), High time + energy consumption for upper-managers, … Read more
I have been reading about this issue becuase it’s important to learn where other failed in order to try to avoid it. Mainly it’s due to different combinations of factors: Understimating scope of organizational change needed, lack of methodology while managing projects, Insuficient time to develop competent proffesionals, Bad timing, Inadequate or insuficient change management … Read more
There are a lot of expectations in the creation of the PMO in our site. They want a PMO; they don’t know what it is and what not, but they want one. In this scenario where expectations are so high, the first thing to do is to manage them. At this time I think I … Read more
Build a PMO will be one of my new responsibilities during next months. It’s not going to be easy but it’s a great challenge that I really need. What would be the starting point for this PMO? The starting point is that there are some good business reasons to create this PMO: local market, growth … Read more