If you have few years of experience in project management, most likely you have come across agile practices. You are conducting periodical retrospectives at the end of each iteration or release. For agile practices, such retrospectives act like a compass which guides you towards true north.
In retrospectives, essentially you are inspecting what is expected in [...]
Habitually express that they are important to you, to the project and to the organization.
Laugh together on small accomplishments…and failures too to learn something from them and move on.
Compliment them in public for the special qualities they have. Be as specific as you can.
Give them necessary comfort when they really need it.
Speak respectfully, don’t put [...]
It’s not so hard to beat your execution team for the failures they have caused. So many organizations live in the past rather than getting the best from the present and building a luminous future. Some organizations stuck for years over something they did or a failure they’ve experienced. Gloomy. A business is a terrible [...]
PMBOK is US standard and is accepted worldwide while PRINCE2 is UK standard.
PMBOK is all-embracing while PRINCE2 focuses on key risk areas only and does not claim to be absolute.
PMBOK is largely descriptive and not very dictatorial while PRINCE2 is highly regulatory, especially on Process Structure, but adaptable to any size project.
PMBOK offers core and facilitating processes; need [...]
Utpal Vaishnav is a project manager, lifelong learner and an executor based in Western India.
