Environment

Have you thought about the environment in your projects? Yes, even if you have NO wind turbines, solar cells, or cars that run on used french-fry oil in your project. Have you? Well, consider this posting as a start.

It had all the earmarks of a disaster, a real career-sinker of a project. And here was my old friend and former colleague calling me up enthusiastically, on the phone: “Hey Lisa, we need a Technical Project Manager for this start-up I’m working for, in Redwood Shores… you’ll love the project and the team. It’s [...]

As Project Managers, I’m sure we’ve all seen the kind of scenario where there is a project team member who is generally uncooperative or can’t seem to get the tasks done on time – and the different approaches you can take in order to solve this problem. You can take the dictatorial “Do as I [...]

The applause was thundering as the magician completed his performance. Proman A. Jecgert had hired the magician to help celebrate the completion of what would come to be called Phase One. The party included all participants across the organization. The grove in the trees was a perfect setting, and the sun shone [...]

 
OK here is the scenario – Do you pass the “ink blot test”??.
It is Friday afternoon on the day before a holiday weekend. You are on the telephone to a venture capital company in New York wanting to know about RoHS impact. The project you are working on since October and which has had three [...]

After years and years of Project Management it finally became obvious to me there was someone or something I wasn’t addressing. No, I’m not talking about all the usual people project management challenges all those references mention, or even some they don’t mention.

Technorati Tags: Accountability, appreciation, best-practices, communication, Emotions, Environment, Leadership, [...]

Unusual title I know – Saturday at last (and my last blog here)
I just spent the day shooting clays – my score is getting better every time I get out on the range and practice. One day I may actually be able to hit all of them – who knows.
The reason for the comparison is [...]

A fast overview of the things you need to check from a project management perspective.
(Friday …… at last…………..)
This week we have looked at a number of areas.
The first is that of the environmental compliance actions arising out of the MRD (Marketing Requirements Doc).
Everything related to environmental compliance hinges on this document and the geographic areas into [...]

A project manager’s guide to reliability aspects of lead free electronics implementation.
I trust that you are not part of a team that expected to just change the solder from leaded to unleaded and call it good.
If you are part of that team I suggest you start getting the resume up to speed and start browsing [...]

How the EU RoHS legislation turned engineers into lawyers: :
From a Project Management perspective it can sometimes be a little frustrating when there are delays due to the BOM verification on an electronics project: particularly when the environmental compliance aspect did not used to be a check list item: …
Just a few years [...]

In any project plan, there is generally an awareness of the phases of the project life cycle (PLC) which is mapped out from product concept through to product end of life (EOL).
The program management of these phases is critical to the successful on time delivery of an electronics “widget” into today’s environmentally aware (and legislated!) [...]

Hi – My name is John Burke, and for the last 9 years I have been involved in the process of environmental awareness and change in the electronics industry to more friendly materials that enable recycling, re-use of materials, and more environmentally and human friendly materials and processes. 
For those of you who have been through [...]