In this Edition
Note From the Editor: Project Learning Doesn’t Have to Be Painful:
No Helmet Required
Feature Article: Insincerity is a Double-Edged Sword
Events: Trade Your Opinion for Swag
On-Demand Webinar: The Case For Social Project Management
Blog Posts: Management Needs a Stamp of Freshness
Project-Based Work and Mitigated Speech: Don’t!
Adapt and Improvise: Agile, Waterfall, and the PMBOK
The Top 10 Success Factors to PPM Software Implementations
Note From the Editor
Working in the foothills of some of the most beautiful mountains in the world has its rewards. Skiing, mountain biking, hiking, and other outdoor activities are only minutes away. This time of year some of my colleague’s and I enjoy longboarding down the Provo Canyon Parkway trail. It’s not too steep (but offers a few particularly fun sections) and we try to be pretty safe. However, I must shamefully admit that last week we had to turn our calendar for counting days without an accident to zero.
Milton was right, “Pride precedeth a fall.” We may have been a little overconfident as we carved down the canyon that day as … one thing lead to another … and two of us ended up bruised, but not entirely broken in a heap on the side of the trail. However, as I explained to my wife, “It was just one of those things that happen, and yes I’ve leaned my lesson and will wear the appropriate safety gear in the future.”
Fortunately, project learning isn’t quite that painful. Whether it’s learning from Scott how to ensure that the information used by decision-makers is accurate and up to date, or from Jackie how to best implement project management software, or any of the other articles included in this weeks email—I hope you will find this week’s newsletter interesting and informative.
And what’s even better, you don’t need to wear a helmet.
Feature Article
Insincerity is a Double-Edged Sword
How we praise is just as important as the praise itself. Unfortunately, we seldom talk about the proper way to praise and recognize accomplishments. The following three tips for recognizing accomplishments will be appreciated by project teams and…
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Events
Trade Your Opinion for Swag
As we prepare to make the 2011 AtTask User Conference the best one ever, your opinion is important to us. Click here to complete an anonymous 12-question survey.
To thank you for your time, we’ll send you an AtTask t-shirt.
On-Demand Webinar: The Case For Social Project Management:
3 Imperatives that Will Drive Greater Project Success
As PPM methodologies spread departmentally throughout the organization, one of the greatest challenges facing business leaders is a lack of voluntary team member participation in the project management process. The traditional top-down work management approach doesn’t work with today’s workforce, resulting in:
- Project information that executives don’t trust
- An overly structured work environment that nobody likes
- Frustrated project teams whose accomplishments often go unrecognized
Access the webinar and listen to guest speakers Tim Harmon of Forrester and Nate Bowler of @task discuss in depth The Case for Social Project Management and how to revolutionize how you manage projects for your company.
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Other Events
Blog Posts
Management Needs a Stamp of Freshness
By way of definition, qualitative information needs to have a “stamp of freshness” attached or it becomes worthless. I would suggest this holds true of all management and reporting systems. Social tools as simple as the update with visible freshness will…
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Project-Based Work and Mitigated Speech: Don’t!
As project leaders we need to facilitate an environment where honest and straightforward conversations are expected and appreciated. If there’s a big problem lurking under the surface that I don’t know about, I don’t want it sugarcoated—I want to hear about it. And, if I shoot the messenger every time there’s a problem…
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Adapt and Improvise: Agile, Waterfall, and the PMBOK
If getting work done, or rather getting the right work done, is the ultimate aim of the project management process, using whatever method makes the most sense for the type of work undertaken just makes sense to me. After all, it’s people that get the work done anyway, does it really matter if it’s agile, waterfall, or some combination of methodologies…
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The Top 10 Success Factors to PPM Software Implementations
When sharing secrets to success, it’s always important to get to the bottom line quickly. Without a big red EASY button, sometimes it seems like the harder I try to do things faster; the more I end up doing nothing of value. With that in mind, here are the Top 10 success factors to PPM software implementation…
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