Sometimes as business owners we need to deal with unhappy clients – or even people who are not our clients but are not happy with us or our business anyway, for whatever reason. It is even more difficult to deal with these individuals when they reach out to us online – either via a blog through comments they leave or via a general website where people can post information about companies they may not be pleased with – and they do so anonymously.
If you are just using project management software to manage your schedule and budget, you are missing out on ways that the software can help you identify and manage risk in the project plan.
The “cloud operating model” also known as “Agile IT” has been explained in a hundred different blogs, but effectively it means an organization designed with your new more agile infrastructure in mind. The point is that legacy IT organizations are unable to truly benefit from the use of cloud because of the designed in delays.
Project team collaboration is no longer sufficient. Neither is cross-functional collaboration! I’m seeing an increasing trend towards projects that require cross-company collaboration. Find a way to get onboard; otherwise you’ll see your competition pass you in the fast lane.
For decades coaches have told their players there is no I in TEAM. The point they’re trying to make is that the interest of the players should be the team first and themselves second. It is true that for sports teams, but in business, teams run the gamut. Team members are less accountable for their individual roles and behavior; and assessment of their performance is much more subjective.
Back in the old days, around 1999, there was a widespread opinion that the Internet and more specifically, the World Wide Web, would change everything. They have — but that was only the beginning. The real game changer is mobile computing.
What would you expect a Risk Manager to do? A Risk Manager manages risk of course. But this is both wrong and unhelpful. Everyone should take responsibility for managing their own risks, and not leave it to one person to deal with them all.
If you grew up as a teenager in the 1980ies like me, you are probably familiar with the quote “There can only be one” from the first Highlander movie. Interestingly, this statement is also true for product owners: There should only be one product owner per product.
We have entered a new normal business environment – and we aren’t going back to the way it used to be! Customers are demanding more for less, companies are hoarding cash and growing the top line is a continual struggle. What can project leaders do to stack the odds in their favor? Leverage social networks.
Anyone remember WordPerfect? Lawyers loved this program because it allowed greater control over the building blocks of a word processed document, without all the automatic coding and formatting that makes Microsoft Word feel so rigid and inflexible. We never heard much about WordPerfect after 1995 because, when Windows 95 was launched, it didn’t support the competing program.
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