Productivity Improvement – beyond metrics and tools

Monday, December 12th, 2011

Many managers (am sure) would be spooked by the results that they get out of team in measurable time frame. Why collective person hours of team results in much lesser output? The task which is planned to be over in 1 week is still work in progress at end of ...

Impact of playing blame game

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

How simple it is to pin a failure or misdeed on another person or situation or company. This is case with almost all of us. This is easier way out. If nothing works out blame it on God and bad luck. In context of professionals working in corporate environment, this ...

Bending Backwards – Is it worth it?

Wednesday, November 9th, 2011

Many of us when moving from individual contributor role to team leader role have this tendency of being “YES Man”. There can be various reasons for it ranging from the upbringing, environment at school / college, type of friends to financial need / condition of the person. Person bends backwards ...

Dealing with Exit of a team member

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Dealing with Exit of influential team member is tough and made tougher if it is not handled with maturity it deserves. When a person decides to leave the organization the impact on the current team depends upon the influence he carries on the individuals in the team and common group ...

Favoritism – the evil within

Wednesday, October 5th, 2011

Favoritism is one common tread with runs through every one of us. It creates the microsystem within the work group which defines how the actual work is done. This is more specific to people involved, with role of the employee in the group defining the impact it carries varies. Every ...

Team discussion in Projects – Collaborative vs One way communication

Friday, September 30th, 2011

any of us who are or were part of development team as individual contributor had at some stage experienced that they don’t have complete picture of the work they are doing. No awareness about the value of their contribution in project and are informed about details on need basis. This is ...

Why do projects fail even after placing relevant and best resources in Project Team?

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

Projects which have every possible thing going for them at times fail. Failure to deliver within expected timelines or to deliver it with desired monetary margin can be classified as failure, with revoking of PO being the extreme case. Company / Business Unit places the almost perfect team to deliver ...