Communication

Social Media on Projects: Rubbish?

by Josh June 28, 2010 Communication

I stumbled across this great discussion today on the Parallel Project Training website and just had to share. I suppose it depends on what your definition of social media is…people tend to think of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn among others (at the moment). I would also point people to this interview of Hal Macomber by Bas De [...]

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Developing Thought Leadership on Your Project Team

by Josh June 26, 2010 Communication

I came across this video from Bas De Baar‘s Project Shrink Podcast and had to share. This is Hal Macomber talking about how he has implemented blogging as a way for his project team to develop ideas, best practices, and many other benefits that come from being engaged in social media. This is where I [...]

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Project Communication – Email Accountability Check

by Josh June 25, 2010 Communication

Time to hold my feet to the fire. Recently I wrote a post about email communication on projects.  My focus was for co-located teams and my aversion to using email as a primary communication mechanism for this kind of project environment. I’ve been with my new team for about 6 weeks now and decided it [...]

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Why Do They Ignore My Email?

by Josh May 25, 2010 Communication

You were talking about a specific topic in a meeting, and half the room didn’t know what you were talking about. “Didn’t you get my email?” you chided in frustration. What’s wrong here?

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Project Management From a Practical Perspective

by Josh May 13, 2010 Communication

Project Management From a Practical Perspective Let’s start with the basic premise that most of the significant things we do can really be considered a project. Whether that’s building a new house, developing a new set of purchasing procedures, implementing a new computer system etc., (the list is potentially endless) these types of endeavours can [...]

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Once Bitten, Twice Shy

by Josh May 1, 2010 Communication

“Mark, I expect you to perform at the level you committed to. There is no excuse for this, you are making our entire project team look bad. Your tasks were nowhere near the critical path before, but now you ARE the critical path.”

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