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Are You Aligning Employee’s Skills to the Projects They Are Assigned?

Frequently, when I’m brought in to a company to evaluate projects or major initiatives that are going off track I find – among other issues – one common thread from client to client – employees assigned to do the work who really don’t have the necessary skills. They were assigned because they have done a […]

Creating and Using an Issues Log on Your Projects

Issues will arise on every project – it’s inevitable. To ensure that issues are addressed most effectively and efficiently, create an issues log for all team members to use when issues arise. This information is also a great addition to the lessons learned component of your project.

Capture the following information for each issue that […]

Does Your Team Understand How Their Work Fits in the Big Picture?

Too often we forget a very important part of kicking off the project team – helping the team members understand how the work they are doing aligns to the big picture – the organizational strategy. Of course, this assumes that we understand how the project fits into the organizational strategy. I do realize that some […]

Plan for Change to Ensure Success

We all know that change is inevitable; and it isn’t going away anytime soon – it’s here to stay. (OK – got all the clichés out of the way!) Some changes we see coming; some we just don’t. Either way – we can have a plan in place to manage changes.

Whether you see the […]

Team Members are Unprepared for the Project Work

How can you get them “up to speed” quickly?

The problem

The project you have been assigned has a short deadline. Given a recent increase in customer complaints over one of the company’s software products, you have been asked to take on a project to correct the problem with the product and release an updated […]