Comments on: Project Management Strategies in the Recession http://www.pmhut.com/project-management-strategies-in-the-recession Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:43:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Steven Levy http://www.pmhut.com/project-management-strategies-in-the-recession/comment-page-1#comment-1094 Steven Levy Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:32:10 +0000 http://www.pmhut.com/project-management-strategies-in-the-recession#comment-1094 I think there are some good points here. It's particularly important to take up the first bullet, encouraging outreach and knowledge sharing among the extended team. Difficult times exacerbate knowledge hoarding -- which can lead to a nasty negative feedback loop, and even more difficult times. Work on team morale, sharing, and the need to pull together. The best defense against further layoffs -- other than economic turnaround, of course -- is to deliver successful projects. The scale of the success is perhaps less important than the fact of the success. The post's author and I have exchanged further ideas around these concepts at the <a href='http://noccrit.com' rel="nofollow">No Secret</a> blog. I think there are some good points here. It’s particularly important to take up the first bullet, encouraging outreach and knowledge sharing among the extended team.

Difficult times exacerbate knowledge hoarding — which can lead to a nasty negative feedback loop, and even more difficult times. Work on team morale, sharing, and the need to pull together. The best defense against further layoffs — other than economic turnaround, of course — is to deliver successful projects. The scale of the success is perhaps less important than the fact of the success.

The post’s author and I have exchanged further ideas around these concepts at the No Secret blog.

]]> By: Pradeep Bhanot http://www.pmhut.com/project-management-strategies-in-the-recession/comment-page-1#comment-1095 Pradeep Bhanot Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:29:36 +0000 http://www.pmhut.com/project-management-strategies-in-the-recession#comment-1095 I like the idea of using “business pullbacks” to pursue new ideas and projects and to get them on the drawing board. PPM and NPD portfolio views offer the opportunity to re-examine your project mix. Use this opportunity to dust off projects that have both low development costs and high short term value creation potential. You can balance this investment by putting off the more ambitious (read risky), expensive business re-engineering projects to a time when you have more confidence in business prospects and cash flow is less constrained. http://clarity-in-emea.blogspot.com I like the idea of using “business pullbacks” to pursue new ideas and projects and to get them on the drawing board. PPM and NPD portfolio views offer the opportunity to re-examine your project mix. Use this opportunity to dust off projects that have both low development costs and high short term value creation potential.

You can balance this investment by putting off the more ambitious (read risky), expensive business re-engineering projects to a time when you have more confidence in business prospects and cash flow is less constrained.

http://clarity-in-emea.blogspot.com

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