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A Project Newsletter
Facilitating Projects |
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Collaborating to Accelerate
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Drawing on over 20
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real-world experiences to demonstrate how project
managers can use collaborative work sessions to
develop key project deliverables faster, with
greater quality, while also obtaining the benefits
of group buy-in and ownership.
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Upcoming Training |
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Join us at one of
our upcoming training seminars...
International
Association of Facilitators' Conference
June 15-16, 2006 Baltimore, MD
Topics:
Facilitating Process
Improvement &
Building Quality Business Requirements
BPM Institute Conference
June 27-28, 2006
San Francisco, CA
Topic:
Facilitating
Team Process Design
ASQ
BPM Institute Conference
Sept. 19-20, 2006
Washington, D.C.
Topic:
Facilitating Team Process Design
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Tip to try:
Use a PC timer during meeting breaks to keep on schedule. Display it to meeting participants, using a PC Projector, to help them self-monitor their breaks and know when it’s time to reconvene.
Click here for a freeware copy of a timer. Once at freewaretown.com, search for Countdown Timer 1.0, download and install it.
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Facilitated Work Sessions - How They
Can Accelerate Your Project
Project Managers often find
themselves in a frenzy trying to get the necessary
project documentation created and approved.
Documentation such as Project Charters,
Rules of Engagement, Business Requirements, Risk
Analyses, and other deliverables involve iterative
cycles of information gathering, decision making,
reviews and approvals by multiple parties in order
to finalize each deliverable...
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way to
reduce the number of meetings this effort requires
and still produce the required deliverables? There
is – facilitated work sessions.
Facilitated work sessions can accelerate creation of project
deliverables, contribute to deliverable quality,
and ensure early ownership of results.
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Meeting Evaluation is Essential
As
a member of a project team or manager of a Program or
Project Management Office, have you ever wondered why
some project meetings seem to be so unproductive? Have you ever
been part of a conversation where you find yourself, or
team members, asking why you are meeting twice a week
when you could easily meet once a week and still achieve
the same results? If you find
yourself asking these types of questions, stop and take
a minute to review some key indicators that often prove
you might have an issue that needs to be addressed
before it gets out of control. Read more....
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Managing
Multitasking
Multitasking
is a pervasive trend in the business community as well
as our personal lives today. We talk on cell
phones while driving, we respond to emails while on
conference calls, and we read the latest headlines on
our Blackberries while riding the elevator. While many
people juggle multiple tasks concurrently in hopes of
achieving greater personal output in less time, studies
have shown that is not necessarily the case. As a
facilitator, it is important to understand the downside
of multitasking as well as how to manage it in a work
session. Read more....
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Effective Transition from User
Requirements to System Design
One
of the perennial challenges in the development of
business systems is to have software developers build
what the business users want in a system. We've
all seen the cartoon depicting a tire swing as the user
requirement and the various distortions that took shape
through the stages of the software development life
cycle. The resulting device only slightly
resembled the desired outcome. Strother Martin
said it best in Cool Hand Luke, "What we have here is a
failure to communicate." Read more....
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