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Project Management

Prevent Your Project from Collapsing

November 3, 2011

Most projects don’t collapse sensationally. They collapse slowly. But you wouldn’t know that for sitting in at steering meetings or reading monthly project status reports. Same way, businesses, countries and families collapse. Slowly. Good and bad thing about this is: It involves people. Most people have tendency to respond to urgency. People take  massive actions only when [...]

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I’m not a project manager. Why do I need to learn project management?

October 20, 2011

What, exactly, does a project manager do? In the software development, the project manager doesn’t always write code, create architecture, perform system tests, or provide funding. And yet, no project manager, no project. The project manager asks questions, “How do we deliver as per the scope?” “What customer satisfaction survey says about the latest release?” [...]

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How to Use Lateral Approach – a Powerful Tool in Managing Projects (and beyond)?

August 15, 2011

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.  ~ Tony Robbins In today’s fast paced world, project and lives are getting more complex and continuously changing. What used work twenty years ago, is no longer effective. For example, in the Non-Google days just the  knowledge of information had given an edge to [...]

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Do You Want to Win the Battle or the War?

June 25, 2011

Not all conflicts can be averted. Not all conflicts are disastrous. When you accept these two truths, your approach to your communication will change. If you build a conflict-liberal organization, you focus more on the real problem that needs to get resolved, rather than engaging into the fixed ways of managing the conflicts. Conflict-liberal approach [...]

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The Client Will Like Your Proposal If: 7

April 18, 2011

…your clearly understandable offer is in relevance with her needs; …it translates your passion towards what you’re doing into a solution she’s seeking; …your presumptions match with what sounds like her own thoughts; …it’s precise, straight, short and sweet – not too much of information which is of no use for her; …you don’t over-focus [...]

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