March 25th, 2010
Little tip, no matter how much you try and how hard you want it, as a PM you should always avoid the constant badgering of your team or resources attached to your team, to deliver ‘product’.
it never works, when I was on the other side of the line writing code and being ‘the resource’ I often encountered tow types of PM, the ‘badgers (?)’ and the guy / girl who knew how to get the best from their team, the ‘badgers’ task where always at the bottom of the list, same is true now I am the guy.
- Trust your team
- Set up your communication lines and trust them
- Ask yourself who is this meeting benefiting, me or the project *before* you call it.
- And leave the guys alone..
*caveat this assumes you have a team of competent staff, if this is not the case adjust your communication lines and project protocols according 
November 23rd, 2009
Its been a while, I know, thing is its been a period of change, no longer do work as a Information Architect at Eduserv, after a period of upheaval, the word came down and I moved to the project management team to look after the shortfall. I’m still there.
The jury is still out as to whether this is a good thing, PM’ing isn’t something hard to me, and i do get to expand into scrum, as opposed to Prince2 methodologies, I’m not convinced that Prince2 works, in fact, I kind of have a sneaking suspicion that a methodology that focuses on the documentation, where the methodology is one of the (if not the) deliverable, is seriously flawed. Done right it can work for certain projects, done wrong, by the letter with too many ‘controls’ its all too easy for the methodology to get in the way.
Scrum may be interesting, so far its not been boring.