Monday, June 11, 2007

Cervix Low And Soft Pregnant

From clean courtyards held

Nature abhors a vacuum (Aristotle)

A former client of my agency (with the same technical Project Manager) used considerable effort in the implementation of the following PM-rule:

" for every possible situation that could occur in the project, there must be a responsible person. This must be identified before the situation occurs, and this must be verified to have committed "(so I've combined the rhymes of at least ...)

There are two motivations:

first It facilitates the work massively because of friction losses avoids. A TPM should be made as quickly communicate with his colleagues, who wrote what part of the standard rates calculated whether the technical requirements are described fully or supported by the concepts of the technology has to be whether the TPM has to organize the testing or someone else will do this . With the customer to a vote, to be carried out in what form the acceptance, which can count on Vosständigkeit materials provided you who do the sequence in which programming interfaces for the integration of two systems, etc. must

second More importantly, it helps in case of doubt it, "keep their own yard clean. If you encounter an awkward situation one is well advised to take a message from his pocket to be able to show that someone else is responsible.

And because one could argue here that it is more important not to make good projects than his time with Machiavellian political stuff to it versus me on this issue a declaration allowed:
  • If a project is something really goes wrong question No one on whether one has ever done as a great content TPM job. In the extreme case is no longer possible to continue to make good projects: "The Tenth as technical project manager for such an important thing Let me see, that was such a debacle at Y, we can not really use again ... "
  • Ob man will oder nicht, wenn ein Auftraggeber (Kunde, Chef oder andere Abteilung) einem den schwarzen Peter zuschiebt, muss man sich dazu äußern.
  • In der Regel ist die Beweislast umgekehrt, als Projektmitglied muss man nachweisen dass man alles richtig gemacht hat. Das ist im Zweifelsfall ausgesprochen aufwendig. Für die Möglichkeit, eine Mail der Form " sorry, aber hatten wir nicht vereinbart (siehe angehängte Mail), dass Sie sich um die rechtzeitige Buchung des externen Dienstleisters kümmern? " schreiben zu können ist man dann dem Herrn dankbar.

Saturday, June 2, 2007

Is There Chanel In Woodbury Common Mall?

escalation

Der Begriff Eskalation hat weiß Gott kein gutes Image: if you just Google it looks, it is found mainly in the environment of Middle East conflict , Telekom against ver.di or knife fighting techniques . Escalation in the project business is actually not bad, but sticks "blow away" the smell of him "squeal" or. "Is (to their superiors) is delegated, if possible in a conflict situation on the lower level of decision is no agreement." According to Wikipedia means escalation "that some decisions controls a level" to the top

based project work - like any other kind of business Relationship - the fact that people respond to each other "contracts", and each must rely on can ensure that its contractors comply with their part of the contract. These contracts are often informal and are not perceived as such:
  • The customer relies on the Agency at the agreed time a website live on.
  • The agency expects the employees of the customer timely delivery of materials and releases.
  • expects the head of the development team of the latter, that the development of the site is completed on time.
  • The developer relies on that he view the layouts and final concept of of creation is replaced.

Failure to comply with an agreement, this leads directly to the fact that someone else can not do his job properly. Creation provides layout is too late = Web Developer also not completed on time and would therefore not comply with his agreement with his boss.

Many developers do not understand that the solution of the problem lies outside their control ("I'm really twenty demand, but nothing happened. What I had to do then? "). In fact, the only way forward, the task back to top delegate, in other words, to escalate.

So lieber Web Developer (stellvertretend für alle anderen): demnächst bitte den Teamleiter darauf hinweisen dass Du gar nicht pünktlich fertig werden kannst, weil Du kein Material bekommen hast. Damit wäre der Plumpsack beim Teamleiter. Dieser versucht mit seinen Mitteln eine Lösung: er wird beim Teamleiter der Kreation die Lieferung der Layouts einfordern. Der Kreationsleiter delegiert das entweder eine Hierarchieebene nach unten (etwa wenn der Designer einfach nicht genug Zeit zur Verfügung hatte um seine Aufgabe zu lösen) oder eskaliert selber nach oben (wenn der Kunde Material nicht geliefert hat).

Eskalation ist im richtigen Zusammenhang also nicht nur ok, sondern sogar absolut notwendig.