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One of the recommendations well described in the previous commented paper: “…If the worker beleives an activity’s duration is reasonable even if it’s optimistic and the person remains properly motivated, they will change their behaviour to achieve the strech target and consequently change the outcome…” About the role of the schedule in a project: “The … Read more
This week I have accumulated 26 hours of scheduled meetings. It beats the amount number of hours I can handle to deliver my work properly. At this moment, I think 20 hours is a good number, less than 15 hours means I’m not attending the team or the clients and more than 20 means “you’re … 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 PMThink! I have discovered this tool: liquidplanner, it has allowed me to discover how a tool facilitates the management of the concepts handled in this kind of management. I like: It’s a SaaS and all its advantages, It’s not only a planner, it allows you to add documentation, collaborate through discussions. Each task is … Read more
Summer time arrives to the office and the incoming demand decrease dramatically. Suddenly you have enough time to arrive to your daily tasks and even you think you have time to do other labours !!! What can you do???
The problem of security in the Lotus WSDL was fixed thanks to some of the links below and the changes we did on the server configuration. With it, this technical risk of the project is mitigated, now we have to go to the next one. These kind of risks cause usually delay in the project … Read more
You Aren’t Gonna Need It !! How many usefulness features have I developed?? and finally they never were not used! How many hours discussing about extras? The waste cannot be completely removed from the Projects and thanks to good scope definitions & deliverables I have always eliminated the most of YAGNIs, but finally there is … Read more
There is a moment in the software projects where you have to change the pace and the main goal of the work you are developing with the team. First, you are working in different functionalities separately and you need the team open their minds looking for technical solutions that make the project reach the defined … Read more
What’s the best thing you can do on Sunday? Rest, run, love, travel, ride… “forget all!!!”. For me usually it’s Sunday or Saturday, which day do you have? A friend who track and field always says that as important is the training as the rest. The training cycle is composed by the training and its … Read more
There are people who are able to start all kind of Projects, offerings or ideas. This start usually comes with a great motivation. After a while the responsibility assigned is delayed and you really don’t know the real reason. Finally you understand that these people really never finish anything. What to do with them?