How a diet tip helped me get a work-related request accomplished.
I know this sounds strange, but I used a diet tip that I read from Micheal Thurmond’s “6 Day Body Makeover” – to accomplish career critical tasks.
How to handle jealousy in the office.
I received the below great question a few days after my Art of War for Product Managers and High-Performing Professionals. I thought you might be interested in the answer as well. Q: Many senior employees work under my lead. In this case, many other senior employees think that what a lucky me. Jealousy is coming [...]
If you can drive, you can understand project managing.
If you know how to drive, you already understand project management. You may still not want to be a project manager, but at least you understand better their function and value. In fact, project management and defensive driving have much in common.
What Yoga is Teaching Me About Leadership
One of my core beliefs is that we are most happy when we feel we’re making progress in our lives. It’s painful for us to remain stagnant in life. In fact, growth is not an option; it’s a necessity. Grow or die. That is the biological imperative that all living organisms experience. “Without continual growth [...]
How to Build Relationships with Stakeholders
Projects involve more than just objectives, outcomes and plans. They also involve people – most importantly, the project stakeholders. Stakeholders can be strong advocates for a project, or they can turn around and kill it. They can help project managers become better at their jobs, or frustrate them into failure. Because of their influence on [...]
Electrical Audit Excellence – An Integration with Business Process Excellence – Project Manager’s Point of Convergence – Part III
Project Manager’s Point of Convergence – Part III Co-Authors: Dr. Shree Nanguneri and Mr. Rao, G In this final “Part III” of our series, we close by integrating the electrical audit process with the principles of business process excellence. As project managers, the approach using the principles of business process excellence (BPEx) helps organizations gain credibility [...]
Electrical Audit Excellence – Project Manager’s Gold Mine to Business Opportunity – PART II
Electrical Audit Excellence – Project Manager’s Gold Mine to Business Opportunity - PART II Co-Authors: Dr. Shree Nanguneri and Mr. Rao, G This sequel to Part – I deals with solving problems and leveraging opportunities in the field of electrical audits, where project managers working within or outside their project scope in their organizations, can make a [...]
Electrical Audit Compliance for This Millennium – Organizational Approach – Part I
The Electrical Audit Process - PART I Co-Authors: Dr. Shree Nanguneri and Mr. Rao. G Electrical Equipment Audit Abstract Organizations throughout the world invest time, energy, and efforts to comply with standards in different areas such as ISO, OSHA, and other areas. One of the critical areas for any infrastructure or business operating unit is being in [...]
Software development – not by PERT alone
I have great respect for software developers. Because software is abstract, invisible and runs at extreme speeds, the people who are good at building it have to possess a particular talent at visualization and a willingness to use complex tools. When software developers become project managers (PMs), they tend to rely on software tools to [...]
Using Game Theory to Traverse Obstacles
Many of the strategies used in games can be effectively translated to business and professional navigation. Find out how….
Top 3 Office Game Changers
As a Business Process Consultant and Efficiency Coach, I am a subject matter expert in the field of Process Improvement. I work closely with the client to analyze both operational processes and financial metrics to assess project opportunities that positively impact the financial performance of the client business. In that role, I see a few misconceptions in how to make office changes (or any change for that matter). The most prevalent false premise is to “start where you are and take small steps”. That may be the resulting action – but I don’t recommend we start there.
If you can drive, you can understand project managing.
This is Laura Lee Rose, a business and life coach that specializes in professional development, time management, project management and work-life balance strategies. In my GoTo Academy: Soft Skill Tools for the GoTo Professional continuous online coaching series, I go into office etiquette on various real-world IT topics in detail. If you are interested in [...]
Red flags indicating possible project failure
Designing, implementing and integrating major IT systems has numerous pitfalls that don’t appear, for example, in building construction. People who are responsible for delivering major IT projects – or are paying for one – need to be aware of what indicators are red flags for possible failure of the project. Classical project management tools were [...]
How do you get it over the finish line?
Today’s entry I wanted to focus on a tactical, down-in-the-trenches topic that several of my colleagues and I have bantered around when we discuss good and bad project methodologies. It’s on how to get the client to”really” accept the project. I’m sure most of you have been on countless projects where each time the project [...]
You Are What You Integrate
This week I posted several blogs focusing on the complete project manager. This is a concept covered in our new book of the same title whose premise is: successful projects are done by skilled project managers and teams, supported by effective project sponsors; it is the integration of a spectrum of skills that enables certain [...]
What’s the Story
This is the first in a triad of blogs on the art of storytelling in projects. In the foreword of an excellent book by Sonia Arrison on longevity called ‘100+’ Peter Thiel of PayPal speculates that the origins of storytelling originated when our ancestors first acquired the knowledge of our inevitable death, a sombre birth [...]
What Kind of Place is This?
When he does not get the results he desires, the singer of a classic song asks the question, “What kind of fool am I?” Or when entering an unfamiliar structure or organization, a person may ask, “What kind of place is this?” Both questions move the questioner into a new stage of learning or development. [...]
Enhancing PMP with Business Process Excellence – Part III Viable Lean Six Sigma Solutions
Enhancing PMP with Business Process Excellence Part III (Final Part of Series) Viable Lean Six Sigma Solutions to Validate Project Timelines and Increase KPI Linkage for PMP leaders Dr. Shree Nanguneri and Mr. Gustav Toppenberg Meandering in a World Swayed by Certification: In Part I, we addressed the vitality of the linkage of a [...]
Time is money in products, too!
On a closely related topic to my last post, I would like to relate a recent experience I had with a consumer product that illustrates one very important aspect of consumer products that is often not given enough importance in the product development priority list: User Interface Speed. We have been satisfied owners of a [...]
Are You In Touch With What You Believe?
Beliefs, and by extension, belief systems, are powerful energy magnets that shape our inner and outer worlds … and they can be innocently (or not so innocently) misleading. For example, in the 1500′s, authority figures believed that the world was flat as a pancake; in the 1940’s doctors appeared in ads advocating the health benefits [...]
The Hidden Value of Conferences and Symposiums
If all you are planning on doing at the next conference you attend is to learn something from the sessions and the exhibits, my advice would be to save your money, focus on your work, and ‘get the dvd’. As we all know, attending conferences isn’t just about the sessions, the keynote speakers, or the product demos. The values you attain from attending conferences are all in the periphery, they are about the ‘X Factors’, those that help you , your team and your company get ahead professionally.
