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THINKING MANAGER: Leadership Skills at all Levels for Project Success
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Sunday, November 27, 2011. Leadership Skills at all Levels for Project Success. Talking about successful projects, one aspect that comes to everyone’s mind is leadership skill needed to drive the project. When we talk of leadership skills, we normally attribute it to senior management at the programme or organisational level. What we do not realise is that leadership is actually required or rather necessary at all levels of the organisation hierarchy. Leadership at different levels. So, there is no doubt...
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THINKING MANAGER: August 2011
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Thursday, August 11, 2011. Tips to Conduct Successful Meetings. Meetings are normally conducted to help discuss certain problems or options and come up with a viable solution. There can be different kinds of meetings such as:. Meetings with clients to sell, to discuss on strategies to provide the best service, to trouble shoot problems related to product/ service etc…. Meetings within the team, such as team members to discuss on a problem at hand, or a review etc…. However, at the same time, I am surpris...
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THINKING MANAGER: April 2011
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011. Vital signs that tells you that Scope Management needs attention in your organization. If one looks deep into the situation, one of the reasons is the pure lack of scope management, which causes a cascading affect on unrealistic planning, poor quality of product, lots of over work and thereby causing low morale of employees. Bring in positive changes in the scope management related processes:. The team has trouble getting the project off the ground. Number of False starts . This ...
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THINKING MANAGER: Scope Management – a practical approach
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Saturday, September 29, 2012. Scope Management – a practical approach. Scope Management – a practical approach. It is easy to list the processes involved in managing the scope of a project. Creating and base lining the WBS – re-base lining whenever there is relevant/ agreed scope changes with clear impact on time and cost. Controlling the scope through integrated change control. Verifying that the scope delivered is in sync with what the customer initially asked for. Understand the vision of the project.
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THINKING MANAGER: November 2012
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012. Making Cookies, the Project Management way. The next time when you make cookies, just observe the processes involved in it. And you will realize that it is nothing different from the processes we follow in project management. It all starts from Needs. This is where you decide what you need. You research on what and how you want to make the cookies based on both external and internal environmental factors. A huge product or just some homemade cookies? How do you plan to procure...
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THINKING MANAGER: November 2011
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Sunday, November 27, 2011. Leadership Skills at all Levels for Project Success. Talking about successful projects, one aspect that comes to everyone’s mind is leadership skill needed to drive the project. When we talk of leadership skills, we normally attribute it to senior management at the programme or organisational level. What we do not realise is that leadership is actually required or rather necessary at all levels of the organisation hierarchy. Leadership at different levels. So, there is no doubt...
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THINKING MANAGER: December 2011
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Sunday, December 4, 2011. 10 Key Steps to Revive a Project. We all talk about successful projects and discuss mostly on pointers to make our project successful. However, what if a project is already in a difficult situation? For such projects, there are some common but yet critical steps that can be taken to help revive the project back. Projects commonly suffer from delays in delivery or overspent budgets. The reasons for these are many. Most common are:. Tight or unrealistic schedules,. Put communicati...
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THINKING MANAGER: 5 Agile Myths Clarified
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012. 5 Agile Myths Clarified. Having discussed about the importance of project management processes in Agile Scrum in my previous blog, let us look at 5 key Agile myths due to which scrum projects fail. So, this gives birth to some myths about Agile and that causes the failure in agile implementation. Let’s look at some key myths…. MYTH 1: Agile methodology is all about interactions and nothing to do with processes:. MYTH 2: Agile means no documentation:. While there is more emphasis ...
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THINKING MANAGER: March 2012
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Friday, March 16, 2012. Why Scrum Projects Fail? And how to solve it? Having discussed about the importance of project management processes in Agile Scrum in my previous blog, let us now look at the reasons why Scrum projects fail and then we shall look at the approach to solve these problems to help achieve successful Agile Scrum projects. The key point in the Agile Manifesto is that. So, when we talk of the following key points in the Agile Manifesto:. Working software over comprehensive documentation,.
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