Standing meetings are under attack. Just consider a few recent article titles: Kill the Weekly Meeting How to Finally Kill the Useless, Recurring Meeting 7 Ways to Kill Your Meetings and Unleash Productivity Each of these articles argues the same central point: most standing meetings are too long, require too many guests, and have no clear agenda. We […]
When your project fails, that’s it. Your credibility takes a huge hit. And as you increase in seniority, and the projects you’re responsible for scale up, that credibility hit grows proportionately larger and more damaging. Mitigating Risk Remains Priority #1 for IT Professionals Despite sophisticated new risk management models, IT projects aren’t getting any less prone to failure. Peter […]
A Framework for Minimizing Meeting Volume and Maximizing Meeting Relevance To state the obvious—most meetings are a waste of time. What’s less obvious—how to minimize meetings. One solution—only get people together in the same room when there’s a valuable reason for it. (I know, I know… this sounds like common sense. But if you work […]
We’ve all been there. The project manager is complaining about the consultants. The stakeholders are dissatisfied with the project manager. The software vendor has “concerns” over the likelihood of the team making its deadline. And the project update meetings go off-track in minutes. Net, net: the situation is bad and you have to get involved. […]
In IT, you have two paths for project success: 1. You can focus on producing small, incremental improvements to existing systems. 2. You can focus on producing large, glamorous wins by implementing new systems. At first, picking between these two options sounds like a no-brainer. You want the home runs, right? Big splashy hits seem […]
