IT:PM:Team
Summary
A large part of amanager's role is managing specialized Attention. Attention to the client feedback, attention to detail. It's necessary to get communication, but know that Interrupting attention has a cost associated to it.
TEAM: Together Everyone Achieves More.
Managing Teams
- A single person cannot achieve everything:
- Specialization: Jack of all trades, Master of none.
- Ideas: communities get ideas more often than individuals.
- The single largest impediment to teams achieving less than the sum of its parts is: confusion in in communication.
- Let people know:
- The goal.
- What to expect in terms of goal shift.
- Their roles
- Whom to go see if they are stuck.
- Whom to check onk.
- How to minimise conversations:
- Define 1 meeting reason, 3 issues to cover, 2+ suggestions to consider.
- Call to order quickly.