Comments on: The Three Weapons of a Project Manager http://www.pmhut.com/the-three-weapons-of-a-project-manager Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:07:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Peter Lenn http://www.pmhut.com/the-three-weapons-of-a-project-manager/comment-page-1#comment-18162 Peter Lenn Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:43:39 +0000 http://www.pmhut.com/the-three-weapons-of-a-project-manager#comment-18162 Bob's weapons attack symptoms rather than causes. Sometimes that's all you can do. For more constructive, effective and long term relief for cross-finctional, shared resources, matrix management and virtual team issues consider this: 1. Almost every team member is motivated and working hard. 2. Almost every team member has more to do than he or she can actually get done. This causes conflicts, mistakes, re-work, interruptions, extra meetings, etc. 3. In most knowledge worker projects, such as software and hardware development, individual capacities vary by factors of 5 to 10. Ignore this at your peril. The solution is a process that aligns assignments with both project priorities and individual and team capacities. Whether or not you use AGILE software development, the basic ideas of SCRUM meetings are excellent for collocated dedicated teams. For larger teams and job shop environments, including virtual teams, look into ProjectPRO Meetings. Bob’s weapons attack symptoms rather than causes. Sometimes that’s all you can do. For more constructive, effective and long term relief for cross-finctional, shared resources, matrix management and virtual team issues consider this:

1. Almost every team member is motivated and working hard.

2. Almost every team member has more to do than he or she can actually get done. This causes conflicts, mistakes, re-work, interruptions, extra meetings, etc.

3. In most knowledge worker projects, such as software and hardware development, individual capacities vary by factors of 5 to 10. Ignore this at your peril.

The solution is a process that aligns assignments with both project priorities and individual and team capacities. Whether or not you use AGILE software development, the basic ideas of SCRUM meetings are excellent for collocated dedicated teams. For larger teams and job shop environments, including virtual teams, look into ProjectPRO Meetings.

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