Archive for the ‘Operations Management’ Category
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
I have, after several months of leading developers, come to a realization: requirements are not enough.
How many of you have heard a developer say this at one point or another:
"Why on earth would they want it to do that?"
Modern requirements gathering has become a very sterile task- identify what must be ...
Posted in Analysis, Operations Management, Process Management, Requirements Management, Software Design | No Comments »
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
How many meetings do you hold or attend with more than a half-dozen people in them? How useful are those meetings? How many meetings do you attend where you never actually have any contribution to what's going on?
As a project manager, you fundamentally have only four resources to manage: Time, Money, ...
Posted in Communication, Operations Management, People Management, Project Management, Resource Management | 2 Comments »
Sunday, May 25th, 2008
If you work in IT or on IT projects, you probably have faced impatient users. They never seem to understand why IT moves so slowly. Here’s some hints as to why they’re so unhappy:
Let’s say the business writes up a project proposal. They research their business process, identify key problems ...
Posted in Leadership, Operations Management, Product Management, Project Management | 1 Comment »
