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NewsletterEncountering new and different people can be interesting, stimulating and exciting. However, it can also be stressful, confusing, and frustrating when you do not understand where they are coming from, what they are trying to communicate and why they do what they do.
Organizations today are increasingly made up of people from various cultures and subcultures. “Culture" refers to a group or community that shares common experiences. It includes groups that people are born into, such as gender, race, or national origin. It also includes groups that people join or become part of. For example, people acquire a new culture by moving to a new region, by a change in economic status, or even by becoming disabled.
Cross Cultural Communication
Clickthrough Case Study
An interactive video start-up needs to get some work done fast! It is 12 weeks until the company's next board meeting, and its founder, Abe McCallum wants to demonstrate the company's capability to encode music videos using its patent-pending technology tools in a significant way. The team hires 10 team members from an excellent labor pool and puts them to work. The team maintains a deep focus on their goals throughout the project and this allowed the team to "handle it" when the scope of the project was twice increased. The team is flexible and uses that flexibility to stay with the project until the very end. In the end, the result is quite pleasing – the team posts almost 44% more content than originally anticipated and was only about one week beyond its originally projected deadline.
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Risk Management – where it fits in Scrum?
This is about Risk. There are visible and invisible risks in any software project and those risks may appear any time during the project life. PMBOK has a separate knowledge area on risk management. YES it’s that important! So ..Then why most the SCRUM practitioners are so silent about risk management ( Ok we Agilists think the word “management” is evil ;-) So I will use the word “risk handling”). I think risk handling is one of the most unspoken areas in agile processes.
Change Control
I have recently been participating in a Linkedin discussion about re-occurring issues that create problems for project managers. Included in the top five list is “Scope Creep.” It can also be called something else, depending on your emotional state at the time.
Are You Ready for the Recovery?
News media are claiming that the economy is “finally back in gear.” What does this mean for businesses like yours? Projects that were sidelined for the past year or two could come off the bench, and there might be more money to go around. Great news, right? It depends on how ready you are to make the most of this new opportunity. Are you confident that you will be able to put the right people on these projects and make the right decisions about how to spend this money?
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Successful project execution requires quality data on who is available and qualified to do the work, when specific tasks will be completed, and which projects are in danger and why. Without this data, project managers are often scrambling to keep tabs on everything and address problems before it is too late. Here are a few questions you need to ask to be sure that you are getting the data you need and putting it to good use in your organization.
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