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6 Ways of Digging a Hole in Project Management

August 16, 2011 by Barney Austen with 78 views

Fear, fear, and more fear contribute to procrastination, poor communication, and lack of resources. [read more]

There’s actually a person on the other side: tales from a project

March 25, 2011 by Drew McLellan with 40 views

You can’t do it all from the box It’s incredible that you can now do business with anyone on the globe.  It opens up amazing possibilities for all of us. It also creates some new challenges. We launched a very complex and challenging project with a new vendor recently.  It was complicated by the fact that it’s outside our area... [read more]

Creating Accountability in Cross-Functional Teams

January 20, 2010 by Elizabeth Houck with 919 views

The 4th of the 5 Keys to Successful Cross-functional Team Leadership Over the years, I have brow-beat, begged, babied, and over-rewarded just to get team members to be accountable - the fact of the matter is you can't force accountability. Team members must make themselves accountable, not just to themselves but to the team.  The... [read more]

The Brutal Reality of Collaboration: Communication is Everything

January 15, 2010 by Alora Chistiakoff with 358 views

Over the past year, the Enterprise 2.0 space has started seeing some momentum that its evangelists have been waiting years to experience. And it's for one basic, underlying reason: Enterprise 2.0 is about collaboration, and collaboration is a profoundly difficult and expensive business problem, particularly in a down economy.... [read more]

Short-cuts and Epiphanies

January 14, 2010 by Dennis Faust with 145 views

Let me describe a common scenario that I recently relived for the 1000th time in my career: Agree to scope of project and set out to get it done by the due date. Encounter problems that put the date in jeopardy. Deal with stakeholder upset at the prospect of a late delivery date. Someone comes up with a brilliant idea... [read more]

How many hats do you wear? Team Leadership: Roles and Responsibilities

December 23, 2009 by Elizabeth Houck with 960 views

In my first post on cross-functional teams, 5 Keys to Successful Cross-Functional Team Management, I outlined the 5 keys needed for successful cross-functional team management: Goals, Roles, Responsibilities, Accountability, and Reward. My second post addressed the first of those keys: Cross-functional Team Leadership in Startups and... [read more]

Get It In Writing

February 6, 2009 by Wil Bradley with 33 views

I just finished reading Startup Daddy's post, Starting A Business: Define Your Definite Major Purpose & Envision Your Desired Outcome. The post focuses on the concept of defining one's purpose, as in what's your purpose in going into business. It speaks about the importance of defining one's goals, both personal and professional,... [read more]

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