Advanced Multi-Project Management: Achieving Outstanding Speed and Results with Predictability
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Advanced Multi-Project Management: Achieving Outstanding Speed and Results with Predictability
What is the project represented by this message, and what is the most efficient (in terms of messages generated) process for bringing this project to a successful conclusion?
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Given that a core part of the problem was that “nothing was getting done”, that meant starting at the very beginning: what is it that we’re trying to do? What were people’s expectations, ongoing projects, and wish lists?
sharedphysics.com • When Everything is Important But Nothing is Getting Done
The most common mental model of work is that it’s like a 100-meter race (not even a 100-meter relay race, just a race)—as if a team is a single runner and can just pick up the pace, improve their conditioning, or improve their technique. Comparing work to a race and your teams to independent athletes obscures the complexity of work and leads to pro
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The second condition that frequently accompanies this kind of communication is even more pernicious: Project managers who focus exclusively on open-ended, present-tense activities often do not have a clear sense of the ultimate outcomes they are trying to achieve. They—and their teams—are simply putting one foot in front of the other, as quickly as
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