An effective project manager needs to constantly provide feedback to the project team on the good, the bad and the ugly to successfully manage a project. Effective feedback gives the effects of past behaviour to affect future behaviour. Feedback also affirms good behaviour. Positive feedback shows appreciation for the contributions and recognizes the efforts of team members.Continue reading “When Then Feedback: Be Objective to be Effective”
Author Archives: Charles BENAMI
Ranked Agenda
Have you thought about how to schedule the meeting agenda? Or are you listing the items in random order? Are you assigning the same amount of time for each item on the agenda? How should the items scheduled? Start the meeting with the most important item first on the agenda and continue with next mostContinue reading “Ranked Agenda”
Your Project’s Elevator Pitch
Can you tell me about your project in one minute or less? Having a concise description will help you at all stages of the project. It clarifies what the project is about. It is a reference for making sure you do not go off track. You will know how to describe your accomplishment. The elevatorContinue reading “Your Project’s Elevator Pitch”
Back to the Future Risk Analysis
Take advantage of twenty-twenty hindsight when it’s most needed — at the start of the project! The way to get a retrospective view at the beginning of the project is to use Gary Klein‘s risk analysis technique, the project premortem. This is a meeting before project execution starts. The attendees of the meeting are asked to imagine the projectContinue reading “Back to the Future Risk Analysis”
A Project Management Trap to Avoid
There are tasks that are critical to the stakeholders and there are the tasks that are critical for the Project Manager: “Projects accumulate a pile of annoying tasks people postpone, but in order to ship the product, that pile must be emptied. Things that are less fun to do are usually harder to do, whichContinue reading “A Project Management Trap to Avoid”
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