Archive for November 2019
How to Stop Strained Relationships from Sabotaging a Project
The following is adapted from The Irreverent Guide to Project Management. Any time you get enough people together, you are likely to encounter friction, and work is no exception. It’s wonderful to have a supportive, sympathetic, open-minded, egoless team, but realistically, there are few cohorts that can measure up to that Utopian dream. When the inevitable…
Read MoreEfficiency Isn’t Everything: 3 Practical Tips for Using Email Effectively
The following is adapted from The Irreverent Guide to Project Management. It takes mere seconds to jot en email and blast it across the aether. Meetings, on the other hand, are better measured in minutes—or even hours! That’s why it’s tempting to ditch face-to-face contact altogether and opt for the more efficient means of communication. Yet…
Read MoreNeed a Solution to a Problem? Follow the Rule of 10!
The following is adapted from The Irreverent Guide to Project Management. Problems are inevitable in every project. Something is going to make you slow down, miss deadlines, shift gears, change the scope of the project, or spend more money than you expected. The trick is to solve these problems in a way that enables you to…
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