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  • Project management and communications

    It's easy to get swallowed by project management tools. It's easy to feel that we can get all the information we need from a piece of software. But it's not true. If you want to know how well a project is going, take your team to lunch. They will tell you more about the project than any statistic...
    Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 11-25-2008

  • Project management: share the burden with your team

    Project management can sometimes feel like such a burden. But is doesn't have to be this way. When only Project Managers support the burden: desktop tools In this situation, the project management tool is desktop-based and only accessible to the project manager. She needs to update the project, tasks...
    Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 10-01-2008

  • Making status meetings fun is possible - yes, I promise!

    Regular status meetings are boring: everyone goes around the table and rehashes what they did in the last week or month. No one really cares. If the project dates are slipping, the team wants the meeting to be over with so they can get back to doing something useful. But status meetings can be fun! Yes...
    Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 08-20-2008

  • The freshness of the first look

    Working on the same project for a long time makes you too focused on the details and disconnected from the big picture. That's why it's so refreshing to have new people join the team. We have someone new at customer service, Michel. He's Micheld in the forums. When Michel started using AceProject...
    Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 07-30-2008

  • The power or "I don't know"

    As a project manager, we are the team's leader. It's easy to feel that we should have all the answers. Leadership is not knowing everything. Leadership is knowing where to find the knowledge and the answers. It's OK to say "I don't know." It's OK to ask for help from your...
    Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 07-08-2008

  • A happy project team means better results for the project

    While it's old news in Europe, happiness at work is only slowly making its way into North American management values. I recommend you visit the Chief Happiness Officer to learn more about happiness at work. At the project management level, it's time we let go of the myth of performing under pressure...
    Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 06-18-2008

  • Tragedy is made

    The quality of the leader will influence how the team can pick itself up from a misstep and go on. Regardless of the event, how one reacts to it makes a big difference on the consequences it will have. Bad things happen to good projects. When something happens, the project manager's reaction will...
    Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 06-09-2008

  • Going global and the calendar

    Today is Memorial Day in the USA. In Canada, the May holiday was Victoria Day , on May 19th. Since a good part of our business is done with organizations outside of Canada, we have to pay attention to holidays happening in other countries. This means a slower day today, but it also meant someone needed...
    Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 05-26-2008

  • It's about trust

    It's easy to say you trust someone. It's harder to put it into practice. Let's say to assign a task to someone on your team. When the teammate flags that task as complete, do you trust her to have completed it, or do you go behind her back and check it? While there are tasks that should be...
    Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 05-23-2008

  • PITAs and projects

    PITA is for pain in the a**. People who are PITAs really put a dent in any project. How can you detect a PITA? He/She focuses only on the negative aspects of the projects. What's going wrong, what's late, what hasn't been done correctly, etc. However, the PITA is not interested in solving...
    Posted to Go Ahead, Manage (Weblog) by Karine on 05-09-2008
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