The short-term success of a project is often more important than the long-term success of a product or even organization.
Schlagwort: Leadership
Choose people you trust, trust the people you have chosen
Employees come motivated, superiors can only de-motivate them. "An employee's motivation is a direct result of the sum of interactions with his or her managers" (Dr. Bob Nelson). It is so easy to feel de-motivated when dealing with senior management. We have to find ways to not let ourselves be de-motivated by them. My previous post The slaves of a Scrum team … Weiterlesen Choose people you trust, trust the people you have chosen
Erzwungene Kreativität
Gunter Dueck provozierte, als er seine These formulierte „Brainstorming hat jetzt 100 Jahre nichts gebracht und man hat es umbenannt in Design Thinking.“ Ich vermute, ihm ging es hierbei weniger um die Methoden Brainstorming oder Design Thinking an sich, sondern um die Tatsache, dass „Untalentierte“ nicht kreativ sein können und um die Frage, wer in solchen … Weiterlesen Erzwungene Kreativität
How to make your meetings memorable
They say we should decline meetings without an agenda because the agenda defines the planned course of action and what is aimed to be achieved. After planning the event, sticking to the agenda, and producing the desired results, meeting organizers sometimes forget to make their meeting memorable.
The biologic reasons behind Scrum
My daily experiences show that Scrum is a natural, biologic countermeasure against the usual shortcomings in projects.
Mislead obsessions
A company obsessed with its processes and roles will lose its obsession with its products and customers.
The leadership for products
At the Product Management Festival 2014, the expert panel consisting of Rich Mironov, Jeff Lash, Michael Eckhard, and Teresa Torres shortly discussed about the best title and definition for a product manager. Teresa was quick to state that it is not the name that's important but what product managers do. In my opinion, a product manager needs a certain mindset to be successful.
The slaves in a Scrum team
To make a project successful, it needs someone providing the vision, goals, and leadership, a role overseeing the constraints like tasks, budget, and time, as well as someone ensuring the efficient and effective use of resources in order to produce the desired quality. These roles need titles. Using the right or wrong words can have a great effect on people. There are lots of words that intrigue me why people are using them and whether they understand what they actually mean.
The guardrails for a successful day
Last June, I almost burned out, again. I noticed how my brain tried to juggle too many tasks of different topics at the same time. And then, it felt like my brain shut down. After that terrifying experience, I found my personal guardrails that will ensure my personal well-being
Olav Dreier 