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May 11, 2009 at 03:57 PM |
At the conclusion of your enterprise project, stakeholders including members of the project committee, business unit deployment teams and super users should be interviewed. They share their experience of the project and their views on its success. They also make suggestions for improvement. The full results are contained in a company template Lessons Learned document. Following is a short list of certain observations that helped us to a successful project: | Factors contributing to success | | Effective, engaged sponsorship at local and executive level. The Business Units made resources available and took the initiative in testing, training material review, design & production configuration. We also used multiple vehicles to ensure recognition of effort. | | Dedication of the team, both delivery & business. They gave 150% to go live on time. | | Ability to access senior management in order to push forward when needed. | | Weekly Business status update conference calls helped build understanding, acceptance and commitment during deployment. |
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The top 5 most critical communication skills for a Project Manager are: |
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May 09, 2009 at 10:23 PM |
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1. Effective writing - using clear, unambiguous, non-threatening, commonly understood English (the technical language of business worldwide)
2. Listening - not just hearing but truly listening to what the speaker means
3. Compassion/Empathy - being able to manage a project team while at the same time being empathetic to life's incredible unplanned "emergencies" that crop up when dealing with people
4. Passion and enthusiasm that inspires the team to row the boat all in the same direction. 5. Avoid always being status quo, during any enterprise project you must stand your ground and take decisions that you believe is in the best interest of your project. (Avoid Group Think sometimes its hard and usually creates costly overruns) Really a combination of all the above mentionned is required but demonstrating your passion in effort and quality will garantee a great team approach and may create a high performance team. A Forrester study states, 60-95% of defects in delivered interfaces can be traced directly back to poor requirements, and 40% or more of a software developer's time is spent doing rework. Another important area for improvement in critical communication skills dont you think? Use a prototype approach or methodologies like SCRUM that forces both parties to speak to each other at a regular shorter time interval. |
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Asset Workbench Process Overview |
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May 06, 2009 at 06:12 PM |
Use the Assets Workbench windows to add new assets to the system, and to perform transactions, such as retirements, adjustments, source line adjustments, and transfers. The workbench can also be used to review asset detail, financial, and assignment information. |
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Interesting book living to 100 |
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Apr 27, 2009 at 10:42 PM |
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Just finished reading a fun book on living to 100 most of it was more or less general knowledge such as men's waist line, diet, have a purpose in life, no stress, eat a healthy breakfast, physical activity. One thing got me by surprise that i was not aware, people that have many friends and a larger circle of friends tend to outlive people by at least 10 years that have a just a few friends, and also married men tend to die before men that have never been married by 7 years in average. Another interesting point, those with more than 12 years of education -- more than a high school diploma -- can expect to live to 85; for those with 12 or fewer years of education, life expectancy is 76. Why do women live longer than men? is brought up and they talk about the chromosomes how women have two X's, and men X anY, and how aging and damage, they have a choice in terms of genes — either on one X chromosome or the other. It also emphasizes throughout the book how staying thin increases dramatically your life expectancy. |
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