As we know, building quality into the software involves cost – I came across a detailed and useful article on “Quality Cost” at LogiGear Newsletter. Author Rob Pirozzi classifies quality costs into four types: Prevention costs, Appraisal costs, Internal failure costs, and External failure costs. For software practitioners and quality professionals, it is very important […]
When working with project teams, it is very important for project managers to gather information – about project status, about activities, showstoppers, constraints, risks, individual issues and a lot more that goes into project management. Asking right questions becomes very crucial for a project manager to get the right information. Timing of asking these questions […]
I recently attended a small presentation from an executive on project management tools. During the presentation, he asked a question “What according to you is the goal of project management?” – meeting the agreed scope, time, cost, quality, schedules formed the part of answers. He immediately responded “The goal of project management is to add value […]
Here’s the answer from “Be Excellent” blog on what makes a good process. Efficiency is about saving time, costs and otherwise removing waste. This is a traditional focus for quality professionals, and its history can be traced back to the days of Work Study, stopwatches and clipboards. (Efficiency is about doing things right.) Effectiveness means […]
Recently, I came across a very interesting blog called Stronger Teams Blog – an excellent resource for articles related to team building and improvement. Here are some of the posts that I loved reading on Stronger Teams Blog. Diagnosing teams to improve performanceA beautiful analogy between team values and human body and examination of team in […]
Loved reading the bottomline of a nice post “The Power of Passion” at “Be Excellent” blog. “Life is too short to spend eight hours a day doing something you don’t care about. It really doesn’t matter where you are in life. The only person holding you back from laying out your plans is you.” Excellence […]
Robin Sharma inspires like no one else does – and he does it again with his excellent post “Your Team’s Only As Good As You“. A team can only be as great as a leader is – and as I have said before, a lousy leader mostly manages a lousy team. Robin says – “The big idea: your team will never […]
He wins Nobel peace prize 2006 jointly with Grameen Bank, a micro-lending initiative he started in 1976 to extend small loans to entrepreneurs who are too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Bravo!! The results of fiercely believing in something, articulating a vision and working on it relentlessly are usually startling and Muhammad is a perfect example in […]
Via Raven Young’s blog: Once a project is in motion, there are many things that can slow it down. Here are some common project clogs to watch for: “Feature creep” (This is the most common roadblock!) Project agreement changes Poor team dynamics Multi-tasking Over-scheduling people’s time (for example, setting up a schedule where team members are […]