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.
Category: projWORKING
Not a Pretty Project Picture
This is a graph of the US BLS Employment statistics for Construction of Buildings. This roller coaster graph is not only a picture of the working lives of many Americans, but is also a picture of many great Projects – delayed, suspended, or canceled. Delayed works of architectural and engineering wonder coming to life. Suspended…
Who Manages Time?
Time – “A continuous, measurable quantity in which events occur in a sequence proceeding from the past through the present to the future.” In doing Project work, we manage people, money, and materials. Those are often thought of as the basics. Within reason, we can get people and manage what they do for your Project….
A Few Project Management Realities Over at Reforming Project Management, Hal uses the recent issues about Toyota vehicles to connect their situation to Project Management. He pointed out some project realities that are worth summarizing: There is more that can be known than we have the ability to know. Either accept that as the basis…
Project CHOICETo do more great Project work, we have to choose more of the Projects on which to focus our time and energy. Great Project work will look different for different people. If you haven’t been doing this in the past, look for a Project that: Has a positive impact on your company, department, or…
Experience and REWORK I’ve worked with many older and seasoned folks over the years on projects. Often, they had many more years of experience than me. Some of them reported to me on projects. One sad thing I noticed about many of these (I won’t say all, but it was a common theme), is that…