involvement « A PM's workshop

Risk and leadership (art of delivering decisions)

By Eugenio, on August 13th, 2009

Leading is about direction

Since the leadership is classified as source of risk, it is essential to understand it and then find, if possible, a simple way for measuring its efficacy through the evaluation of results.
Merriam Webster’s definition: “capacity to lead”.
In a project environment, this should be focused on the stakeholders’ relationships. In particular [...]

Emotions are at the base of power

By Eugenio, on July 3rd, 2009

traffic jam

Thanks to an excellent post of Rob Llewellyn, I take a detour from Gantt analysis for sharing some more thoughts about communication.

Formal documents (e.g. Gantt’s diagrams, Highlight Reports etc.) can supply the infrastructure for the project. In this metaphor, standard documents are vehicles running in the company’s network for delivering information. As we [...]

Accountability: the value of communication

By Eugenio, on June 19th, 2009

Communication, in a project environment, makes its sense only if it can keep stakeholders aligned on the agreed project [...]

Involvement (and persuasion)

By Eugenio, on May 17th, 2009

hard negotiations

“Do you know the difference between involvement and commitment?” asked us the customer’s managing director. “It is all in the English breakfast” added smiling. However, with his well cured moustaches he poised like a cat when the mouse is cornered.
“The hen is involved, the pig is committed”.

The meeting was dedicated to the [...]