tailieunhanh - Succeeding in the Project Management Jungle How to Manage the People Side of Projects_8

Tham khảo tài liệu 'succeeding in the project management jungle how to manage the people side of projects_8', kinh doanh - tiếp thị, quản trị kinh doanh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 186 AVOIDING PITFALLS INTHE FIVE KEY PHASES OF A PROJECT Your Role As in planning the value-add that you provide is in getting your key managers over time to better focus on the team goal and to enable the team to work together across their silos as issues arise that cut across those boundaries. As the various key managers cover their one-pagers you should ask questions geared to drive a team-oriented thought process and to integrate ideas into solutions. Keep in mind four goals when asking these questions 1. Encourage them to talk together so that they work better together. 2. Use the questions to uncover new risks or to gain a better team understanding of existing risks. 3. Ensure that the team is focusing clearly on near-term schedule milestones. 4. Ensure that the team is thinking about potential emergent risks. Tools You Can Use Yes No Questions Worksheet and Key Manager s One-Pager To support efficient team meetings I recommend two simple tools the Yes No Questions worksheet see Figure 9-1 and the Key Manager s One-Pager see Figure 9-2 as the most efficient least onerous ways to get out on the table the data that the team and you needs to get the job done. At the root of these tools are communication and accountability. Trust will follow when the team members start working together on the data that come from using these tools. On every project there is a set of key managers each of whom is responsible for some piece of your project. Those key managers should themselves fill out these worksheets. They use the Yes No Questions Worksheet to help prepare the One-Pagers which they will share at your team meeting each week. Let s first look at the Yes No Questions Worksheet. This set of questions is grouped around requirements tools schedule and risks. Obviously you can modify the list of questions for your proj American ManagementAssociation EXECUTING 187 ects. For example if you are managing to a firm-fixed budget you might include cost as one of .