Thursday 27 February 2014

[www.keralites.net] TOP 10 Guaranteed Ways to Screw Up a Project

 

Taken from an article by Michael Greer

I'm sure we can all relate to most of these, but in reality, if we don't follow the PM processes set up to make us successful, we may find ourselves the ones this is directed towards.

 

1. Don't bother prioritizing your organization's overall project load. After all, if there's a free-for-all approach to your overall program management (i.e., survival of the fittest), then the projects that survive will be those that were destined to survive. In the meantime, senior management need not trouble themselves aligning projects with strategic goals or facing the logical imperative that people simply cannot have 12 number one priorities!

 

2. Encourage sponsors and key stakeholders to take a passive role on the project team. Let them assert their authority to reject deliverables at random, without participating in defining project outcomes in a high-resolution fashion. And above all, don't bother project sponsors when their constituents drop the ball and miss their deadlines.

3. Set up ongoing committees focusing on management process and make project team members participate in frequent meetings and write lots of reports, preferably when critical project deadlines are coming due.

4. Interrupt team members relentlessly, preferably during their time off. Find all sorts of trivial issues that "need to be addressed", then keep their beepers and cell phones ringing and bury them in emails to keep them off balance.

5. Create a culture in which project managers are expected to 'roll over' and take it when substantive new deliverable are added halfway through the project. (After all, only a tradesperson like a plumber or electrician would demand more money or more time for additional services; our people are 'professionals' and should be prepared to be flexible.)

6. Half way through the project, when most of the deliverables have begun to take shape, add a whole bunch of previously unnamed stakeholders and ask them for their opinions about the project and its deliverables.

7. Encourage the sponsor to approve deliverables informally (with nods, smiles, and verbal praise); never force sponsors to stand behind their approvals with a formal sign-off. (In other words, give 'em plenty of room to weasel out of agreements!)

8. Make sure project managers have lots of responsibilities and deadlines, but no authority whatsoever to acquire or remove people from the project; to get enough money, materials, or facilities; or insist on timely participation of key reviewers.

9. Describe project deliverables in the vaguest possible terms so sponsors and reviewers have plenty of leeway to reinvent the project outputs repeatedly as the project unfolds.


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[www.keralites.net] : How to be Happy [1 Attachment]

 

Once a group of 50 people was attending a seminar.
Suddenly the speaker stopped and started giving each one a balloon.
Each one was asked to write his/her name on it using a marker pen.
Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room.
Now these delegates were let in that room and asked to find the balloon which had their name written, within 5 minutes.
Everyone was frantically searching for their name, colliding with each
 
other, pushing around others and there was utter chaos.
 
At the end of 5 minutes no one could find their own balloon.
Now each one was asked to randomly select a balloon and give it to the person whose name was written on it.
Within minutes everyone had their own balloon.
The speaker began--- This is exactly what's happening in our lives.

Everyone is frantically looking for happiness all around, not knowing where it is.
Our happiness lies in the happiness of other people...
Give them their happiness and you will get your own happiness.
And this is the purpose of human life. 

 

Good Morning friends,

You give but a little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give."
 


 

 

 

  
A Small Story with a Powerful Message:

 

A boy and a girl were playing together. The boy had a collection of marbles. The girl had some sweets with her.

The boy told the girl that he will give her all his marbles in exchange for her sweets.. 

The girl agreed. 

The boy kept the biggest and the most beautiful marble aside and gave the rest to the girl. The girl gave him all her sweets as she had promised.

That night, the girl slept peacefully. But the boy couldn't sleep as he kept wondering if the girl had hidden some sweets from him the way he had hidden his best marble.

Moral:

If you don't give your hundred percent in a relationship, you'll always keep doubting if the other person has given his/her hundred percent. 

With loving regards

Dr.E.S.Maheswar  


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[www.keralites.net] Meaningful thoughts.......................

 

 They are meaningful thoughts on the adventures of life. Hope you don't mind my additions and re-forwarding to friends.  

Wish to add a great song of the 70's on the concept of generation gap. A song with beautiful lyrics - a theme which continues from generation to generation.  However great a parent u are, the youngster always wants a space away from elders.  The singer is Cat Stevens, who was Britain's greatest songwriter and singer. You don't get such professional singers nowadays. He has since  converted to Islam and is known as Yusuf Islam.

http://youtu.be/aVbbYYUMI-c - Father and son by Ronan Keating Yusuf Islam
 


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BONDAGES IN LIFE
 

"Why does my husband constantly create hell for me? He is possessive of me, which makes both our lives miserable. I need to understand his psychology." Complained a woman to a Swamiji. The Swamiji said, 'Just look around; we find the whole world is like a university of understanding. Each incident teaches us something very profound.'

We are in bondage and don't realise it. In order to come out of this, first we should realise that we are in bondage.

The bondage may be due to any of the following:

1. Insecurity

2. Possessiveness

3. Struggle for power

4. Fear

5. Greed

If we understand insecurity closely, we find that insecurity is not a real problem. In fact, our concept of security is the real problem. Insecurity is a form of change. Our insecurity will disappear if we look at change as something to be experienced without our ignorant concept of security.

Another great bondage is that of greed…..greed for money, name, fame….People sacrifice happiness for the sake of money, name, fame……is this not foolish?

Reflect on this anecdote.

   There was a belief in an empire that whoever its emperor becomes would go to heaven and inscribe his name on a golden mountain. A man believing this ideology, toiled throughout his life, sacrificed his happiness and became the emperor.

When he died, he went to heaven. The gatekeeper at the doors of heaven was very indifferent. The emperor retorted, 'Don't you know that I am the emperor?'

The gatekeeper replied, 'Many emperors have come here from time immemorial. So what is so great about you?'

The emperor was shocked and asked him to lead him to the golden mountain.

The gatekeeper answered casually, 'go straight and turn right, you will find the way to golden mountain.'

The emperor reached the mountain and tried to inscribe his name on the golden mountain. He found the whole mountain filled with names; he was disappointed not to find a space to inscribe his name. he came back and enquired the gate keeper, 'Where can I find space to inscribe my name?' The gate keeper casually replied, 'Wipe off one of the existing names and inscribe yours.'

In the infinity of time, where do we exist?

Do not identify yourself with negative feelings. Feelings are like clouds which come and go fleetingly; but you are like the space. Do not identify with the clouds; but be centered in the space of consciousness. This process is called detachment. when you are attached to yur negative feelings you become a prisoner to them. Attachment creates hell.

Reflect on this anecdote

In the earlier days, there was an interesting technique for catching monkeys. A huge jar with a narrow neck was used. Nuts were dropped in the narrow necked jar, in the presence of a monkey. A monkey trying to grab the nuts from the jar got caught, because its fist clutching the nuts, would get stuck in the narrow necked jar. Only if it dropped the nuts, would its hand be free and easy to remove from the jar. But the monkeys were too attached to drop the nuts and free themselves; hence they were caught.

 Are we also attached like this?

Can we experience a sense of wonderment when we see difficult people creating their own world of hell? The experience of wonderment relaxes one's being. First change has to happen within us, only then we can motivate others.

'If you feel good, you will experience that the world is right.

But ignorant people feel that only if the world is right would they feel good!'

  12 HAPPY THOUGHTS FOR TROUBLED TIMES 


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