Clarke Ching – whose work I’ve been reading for a while, is preparing to publish a short parable for these troubled times. Get in touch with him via this post, and grab a copy, after all the more weapons in our armoury, the better chance we have of winning the inevitable battles.
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management, process | jamesk, December 21, 2008 11:25 pm | 
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So, there I was, quietly listening into a conference call between a couple of clients on one side, and the account manager, project manager and me on the other.
We were going through a small project that we’d just completed for the purposes of getting sign-off. We had built in the functionality they wanted, using the designs that they’d agreed to, so it was plain sailing.
And then the spanner.
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management, process | jamesk, August 19, 2008 10:39 am | Comments (0)
Just doing our best ain’t good enough – we need to be more savvy than that and work out precisely what’s the best thing to do first. So far, we’ve identified the conflict, and we now need to assess possible solutions.
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management, process | jamesk, May 14, 2008 9:20 pm | Comments (2)
How is it that people work hard for long hours, and yet projects fail? Why do project debriefs become bitter tales of one team thwarting another? How can we be doing our best, and yet see it fall apart so spectacularly?
Stuff, management, process | jamesk, May 9, 2008 12:21 pm | Comments (0)