Breaking the Cycle of Micromanagement
Does this sound familiar? Project Manager: I thought I knew where we stood, but turns out we’re further behind than […]
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teamwork
People Who Need People: Books For Project People Part 3 of 6
Almost every job I know requires some people skills. But unlike sales and marketing for instance, being a project manager
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Part 6 of 6 on Teamwork: How the PM can make or break the project’s teamwork
Today I wanted to tackle how project managers and their approach to that role can be seen as boon to
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Part 5 of 6 on Teamwork: Pervasive Personal Responsibility, Accountability, and Initiative
One of the things I’ve tried to do in this series is use some “word pictures”: ways of describing things
Part 4 of 6 on Teamwork: Bottom Lines – A tool for achieving interpersonal teamwork
A friend once emailed me with a burning question about “A Situation” with a particular team member. What had started
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Teamwork: Victims and Vanquishers (part 3 of 6 on observations on true teamwork)
My first two posts in this teamwork rumination (last week’s post here and yesterdays “part 2” here) set up the idea that
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More on “teamwork” – how individual team members’ knowing and doing makes the team
In a post last week I talked about “teamwork” not being a warm and fuzzy concept to me. To me the concept of
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Teamwork is really a set of individual commitments and contributions…do you have it on your project?
“The concept of teamwork often gets turned into some fluffy, warm and fuzzy ‘thing’ that no one quite knows what to do with … a bunch of people working together in unadulterated harmony or even outright bliss. Great if you can get it but not something I’ve seen a huge amount of….”
Is Agile Enough (part 2)
So what is the result? Today, usually only one team member has spoken directly with a customer, and this understanding
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Is Agile Enough? (part 1)
Agile project team values and their embodiment in actual practice are highly subject to personal interpretation on the parts of
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3 practices for smartly building trust
Smartly building trust is a key activity for successful collaboration. There is a lot of complexity involved in working successfully
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