Archive for Project Management

Space Out Your Work and Use the Entire Time Given to You

January 18, 2007 at 1:22 pm · Filed under Project Management

Earlier in my career I had so much fun finishing programming tasks in 1/3 of the time allotted by the project manager. I thought it was best to work hard enough to accomplish things blazingly fast.

However, when my sister learned about this she disagreed and told me how their Japanese client takes it against you for finishing things earlier than expected. She explained how they were taught to finish things on time and do things accurately as expected.

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Experience in Diversity

January 1, 2007 at 2:48 pm · Filed under Management & Leadership, Project Management

I have written about the existence of diversity which says diversity exists in the workplace and we should understand and respect people and their different beliefs.

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Project Management Phases - Part III

December 23, 2006 at 11:18 pm · Filed under Project Management

This is a continuation of the project management lifecycle post where we previously discussed project build phase.

Project Closure

Closing the project properly is an overlooked task by so many project managers and is usually taken for granted by teams and organizations. Project managers undervalue the importance of spending time on evaluating and analyzing what happened to the project and would rather move on to their next assignment.

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Why Does People Want to Be as White as Snow?

December 16, 2006 at 7:06 pm · Filed under Food for Thought, Management & Leadership, Project Management

I went to the hyper mart this afternoon and over the beauty and personal hygiene section I saw so many products which promise to help you become white—whitening cream, soap, astringent, etc. Except for the new branding of Dove, almost every product simply wants you to become white as snow.

A thought came up; I’d invent a product line which delivers enhancement of blackness. Black is the new white.

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Project Management during Holiday Season

December 12, 2006 at 11:55 am · Filed under Project Management

I have written the 7-Hour Rule of Project Management which says that project managers should only allocate 7 hours a day in their timeline since realistically employees are not productive for 8 hours.

How about Holidays?

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Make Sure Helping Other Members Doesn’t Lead to Owning the Task

December 6, 2006 at 12:30 pm · Filed under Management & Leadership, Project Management

Slack time in project schedules happen even if project management argues there should be no slack time when creating timelines. During this time the project manager sometimes look to fill the slack time of teams or members by asking them to help out other individuals or teams.

Is that a good practice?

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Out of Scope Work Should Not Affect the Quality Delivered

December 2, 2006 at 10:39 am · Filed under Project Management

Road Paint I have written a post titled Creating Added Value for the Customer is Bad Project Management which talks about the setbacks on performing tasks which are out of scope.

The picture below takes it too much. I agree that things outside of scope should not be performed but when the quality of work is compromised because of certain roadblocks, the project should not proceed and alert the client about certain issues. Proceeding to take additional actions should then be agreed upon for the overall quality of the results.

Found via Seth Godin.

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