A recent discussion on LinkedIn centered on the tendency of Clients (Owners) and General Contractors to hold payments for completed work for as long as they can. This is especially hurtful for smaller companies. Will the use of new forms of agreement such as the Integrated Project Delivery Agreements by the AIA and ConsensusDOCS change…
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Mind Mapping for Customer Relationships
Projects have Customers. Internal. External. Someone needs and wants the output that our Project will produce. Look at how one company is using mind maps to improve their relationships with their customers.
Scheduling – Purists vs Randoms – Obvious Lessons
In ProjectWorld, scheduling can create massive controversy. Much of the debate is between “Scheduling Purists” and the opposite – I’ll call them “Random Purists”. Scheduling Purists often feel that whatever is generated on paper (or on screen) is what will happen, at a certain time, and in the exact required sequence. They are often disappointed…
YourSelf as a Project
Interesting post titled “42 Practical Ways to Improve Yourself” by Celestine Chua over at Lifehack. (She also has her own blog about Personal Excellence.) To keep improving our Project work, we have to also make a Project of ourselves. Notice a few of her personal items that also sound like Project work: Overcome your fears…
Make Better Project ConnectionsSometimes we talk about Projects as if they are objects that live on their own. Projects never see a start or a completion without people working on them. Every Project ends up with at least one Customer (someone who receives or experiences the result of the project) and an Executor (at least…