Heymans.org » focus http://heymans.org I'm Bert Heymans, a project manager, moonlighting hobby photographer and an all-round tech adventurer. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:55:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 5 powerful questions http://heymans.org/2009/01/5-powerful-questions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=5-powerful-questions http://heymans.org/2009/01/5-powerful-questions/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:58:09 +0000 Bert http://heymans.org/?p=178 I found out that asking yourself and your team members the right questions makes a whole lot of difference. It makes things easy once you get in the habit of doing it.

Try some of these:

  • in a stressful moment: What next thing makes the most sense at this time given the current situation?
  • someone complains, ask: What can we do about this?
  • when in doubt: What are the next steps?
  • when things surprise you: What are these things telling us?
  • after a setback: How can we learn from this?

I got inspired by a post by Steve Pavlina I remembered from long ago, in the recent past I started noticing that my CEO and other senior project managers ask these kind of questions quite a lot.

It’s funny how common sense this is, all you have to do is do it.

]]> http://heymans.org/2009/01/5-powerful-questions/feed/ 0 Doing What is Good For The Project. http://heymans.org/2009/01/doing-what-is-good-for-the-project/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=doing-what-is-good-for-the-project http://heymans.org/2009/01/doing-what-is-good-for-the-project/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:00:41 +0000 Bert http://heymans.org/?p=42 There are many management methodologies around, like ITIL, PRINCE2, the one I’m currently studying PMI, and many more but actually there is only one thing a PM has to do and that is doing what is good for the project.

Just leave out all the processes that you don’t need. Whenever you can, do less and keep the processes lightweight.

Doing this will help you and your team to focus.

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