Mitigate Risks and Innovative Accelerators
The #1 mistake in project risk management is to identify risks but do nothing about them.The harder you work, the luckier you get.Success staring in the face of failure.In any given project things wil...
Viable Plans and Schedules
A carelessly-planned project takes three times longer to complete, a carefully one takes only twice as long.Common sense is not common practice. It's not even common knowledge. Most so-called common s...
Roles and Responsibility Understood and Agreed Upon By All
Fear of failure is the #1 issue standing in the way of setting goals.If you are not allowed to fail, don't start anything.The person who is capable of making a difference will be found in the mirror, ...
Effective, Unrelenting Communication With All Stakeholders
The major problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred.We get tunnel vision, focus on what's right in front of us, and hope that disaster won't strike as a result.Keep it short, kee...
Measurable, Challenging & Achievable Goals
When I was young I always wanted to BE somebody when I grew up. I just wish I'd been more specific.When most project teams hear the shot of the starting gun, they leap into figuring out how to do it -...
Obsessed with Customer
There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everyone from the chairman on down by just spending money somewhere else.The moose is not loose.We had a whale of a time.When you assume, you make...
Different Between Sprint Review and Sprint Restrospective
Sprint review is for everyone involved, especially stakeholders, toinspect where the project is and discuss how to adapt as needed. Sprint review revolves around what was built – ...
Templates
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Getting Better Each Day
Innovate when you have a better idea (and everyone you show it to says "Wow!"), but take advantage of conventions when you don't. You have to understand the value of what you are replacing.Get emotion...
名言警句
企业最重要的财富就是员工对企业的热爱思维方式X热情X能力=人生经营的结果Conventions only become conventions if they work.行为如果只用外在理由来解释,那么,一旦外在理由不再存在,这种行为也将趋于终止,因此...
Five common sense practices
Referred from: http://wiefling.com/2012/01/19/too-tired-to-care-regain-your-perspective-with-5-proven-practices/Write Down Your Goals. Just because you’re busy doesn’t mean you’r...
Scrappy Project Management Checklist
Be completely and unrepentantly obsessed with 'CUSTOMER'Provide shared, measurable, challenging & achievable 'GOALS' as clear as sunlightEngage in effective, vociferous and unrelenting COMMUNICATI...
Characteristic of A Successful Project leader
The first characteristic of a successful project leader is to be completely and unrepentantly obsessed with the customer.There is no answer inside the building. Getting project team out sw...
Vision of Project Success
It's up to the project leader to create a grand unified vision of success - what success looks like, feels like, sounds like, tastes like, and smells like. Every single person associated with the proj...
One-Page Project Success Scoreboard
Key attributes of a useful scorecard:A complete list of success criteriaA clear description of each of the criteriaSpecific, measurable, and actionable targets for each criteriaThe minimum acc...
OO Design Principles
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Questions to Inspire
I used to nagging about what are the steps of doing a good job. Therefore, I also repeated the steps for my members all the time. Sadly but true, they usually didn't work.Inspired by a book, I...
What Do You Do With Mistakes
I always want to be a great manager. I don't know, since when, that I want perfection. It has been bothering me all the time. Given I am afraid of making mistakes, I am getting nicer and nicer to othe...
Should Manager Play Tricks
I am a honest man. I like to trust people and treat them with all my heart. Meanwhile, I am expecting the same from them. As you know, my heart is always broken because of this. At first, it didn't to...