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Today I have assisted to a typical lesson learned that you can read in thousand books. The agenda of the meeting was the presentation of 2 technical solutions for a given business process. The workbench meetings with the client when the solutions were being worked given us some information about what was the preferences of … Read more
This weekend I was reading different articles about the financial problems appeared in Dubai. If you remember the what happened in Bangkok construction turmoil, then you know what I talk about. The interesting issue mentioned in some of the articles about the Dubai finance disruption is the way the communication has been performed. They provide … Read more
Typical projects where you compose a team to build something through a project execution uses to have a non written law about the percentage of management you need on each project. For us it’s something around 15% of the total time of the project. We are working now for a client where the infrastructure projects … Read more
Communicate, communicate, and communicate… This is what I do every day. If I ignore this fact 2 days it comes to me in form of a misunderstanding and then I need to repeat the message again. Sometimes I think that I do not communicate properly or that I don’t get the attention of the people … Read more
First try; I used the formal channel of communications available for the center in order to foster the relationship between the team members and try each one know the initiatives launched by the others. The problem was easy, people cannot enter new documentation and there is not way to perform real collaboration between people. We … Read more
In some environments, notifiership has replaced leadership. There are people who only takes the problems and then distribute to team without helping and encouraging the issues they are leading in the project. I have seen this phenomenom recently. The assignment of a team member to a project, where the project manager did not explain his … Read more
Some lines extracted from The handbook of Program Management by James T Brown. Stakeholder management involves everything necessary to control relationships with all individuals the program impacts or affects in order to ensure the achievement of program objectives. Program managers must mentor & coach projects managers in terms of stakeholder management. “Hell hath no fury … Read more