project-commitment

Saying “no” is hard for everyone.
“If I say “no”, they will think I’m not a team player.”
“If I say “no”, they will think I’m not committed to the product’s (company’s) success.”
“If I say “no”, they will blame me for the other project’s failure (because I wouldn’t let my resource spend some time helping it).”
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There are many aspects of project management that are important and worthy of comment.  In this post I will present my thoughts on the value of having a system perspective in managing projects and some tools and techniques that can be helpful.  Keeping the big picture system perspective is harder than it sounds.  There are [...]

My ex-husband always made us late for appointments because he’d estimate time “as the crow flies” – not ever taking into consideration red lights, kids having to go to the bathroom, wrong turns or any of the other things that cut into time estimates.  Ray was an engineer – a damn good one at that!

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