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PMI - Pune-Deccan India Chapter On Target Newsletter 1st Quarter -2011

Making project management indispensable for business results®


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Articles in this Issue

Just Enough, Just In Time, or Sometimes Just Because

by Jesse Fewell, CST, PMP

The Trouble with Continuous Multi-tasking, and How to Avoid It

By Gary Hamilton, Jeff Hodgkinson, & Gareth Byatt

Mind mapping Technique for Learning on the Fly

By Niranjan Mirasdar, PMP

Soft Skills : People Management

By Mr.Kartik A.Thakkar (PMP, ITIL, CSSGB, APICS-BSCM)

They do not know!

By Vikas Dikshit

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2010 Board of Directors President's Message

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Greetings to all the members & their families!

I would like to thank all of you for your active support in the past and look forward to continued support & contributions from all members of the chapter. I am confident that together all of us will achieve our set goals - both short terms and long term!!

The Year 10-11 brings to all of us new opportunities and new challenges .Today customers will be asking - ―How to deliver correctly, quickly and repeatedly?‖. PMI has started an Agile COP in tune with industry sentiments and the chapter is fortunate to have a dedicated team working with Jesse Fewell .

Tough times come and go. I have seen many such occasions. The challenge is to see what we learn from this and steer clear of the impediments. . THINK! What is important is whether we are all alert and agile see this for ourselves.

New and innovative Project management techniques need to be deployed to reduce the uncertainty in delivery, execution and implementation. This is why the chapter has launched Niche programs for PMs

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And the team is working to bring in more value added programs to you the members and your colleagues and now to your children also. So please take full advantage of these well renowned programs.

I would like to appeal to all the members that together let us make ―10-11‖ a memorable year for PMI Pune Deccan India chapter!!

All the best for 2011

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Article 1

Just Enough, Just In Time, or Sometimes Just Because Jesse Fewell, CST, PMP

Over the last several months, I have found myself answer the same similar questions from project managers: How much

up-front planning should we do? How many people should we hire? How many meetings, documents, procedures do we need to be successful? I call these the "how much" questions. No matter what field, no matter what project, we all face the "how much" questions over and over.

I first heard the Three Golden Rules from Mike Griffiths, one of the earliest council members of the PMI Agile Community

of Practice. In early 2009, the council was struggling with very heavy document that PMI required to launch the Community. After much debate over the document, Mike interrupted with a seminal insight in agile efficiency,

"When it comes to documents, I coach my teams to generate just enough, just in time, and occasionally just because. I

think this document fits the last category. Our client has asked us for this document, and even if we consider it excessive, the

community will simply never get launched unless we use it."

Golden Rule #1: Just Enough. This is the first level of efficiency. Only do enough prep work or support work to achieve the primary goal of delivering business value. The problem is that we so easily intertwine the prep/support work with the bottom line

deliverable we’re paid to generate. With that confusion, comes the temptation to more and more prep/support work:

Yes we need a project roadmap, but rather than spending the time to build a year-long plan at the man-hour level, we’re going to provide just enough detail to communicate a vision to stakeholders.

Yes, our IT staff needs some technical direction, but rather than waiting to architect every layer of every interface of

every system up front, we’re going to provide just enough architecture direction to get started. Yes, we need to pass the certification and accreditation audit, but rather than defensively avalanching them with

paperwork, we’re going to collaborate with the auditors, to deliver just enough documentation to satisfy them.

Golden Rule #2: Just In Time. This is the second level of efficiency. You could be crafting lightweight documents, lightweight architecture, lightweight processes, and still be doing all that lightweight work way too prematurely:

Yes, it could be that we’ll need that architecture component, but let’s invest the time to implement it only when we know

for sure we’ll need it. Yes, we’ll need a detailed action plan for next year’s project phase, but let’s spend the time for that detailed plan when

we get to that phase. Yes, we’ll need to generate a some documentation, but let’s wait until we get the documentation requirements before we

waste our time on writeups that aren’t needed.

Golden Rule #3: Just Because. With the first two guidelines nudging us in the direction of efficiency, this is the constraint that keeps us grounded in reality:

I know the 40-page template violates “just enough documentation”, but we’re going to use it, just because we won’t get

sign off without it. I know forecasting the full project cost up front violates “just in time planning”, but we’re going to do it, just because we

won’t get funding without it.

I know triple-entering our hours into the timesheet system violates “just enough admin”, but we’re going to do, just because we won’t get paid if we don’t.

The next time you’re faced with a dilemma over “how much” of something you should do, use these three rules to generate an agile response

Jesse Fewell, CST, PMP, Ripple Rock, Managing Director - India.

Jesse is a writer, speaker, trainer, innovative leader in the business of technology management. In

addition to speaking for Agile, Scrum, and PMI conferences, he has collected a broad array of

experiences in several sectors such as National Security, Aerospace, GIS, Stock Multimedia, Telecom,

and Hospitality. Recently, he founded the PMI Agile Community of Practice, PMI's component

dedicated to Agile Project Management. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, he is a certified

Project Management Professional (PMP®) and a Certified Scrum Trainer (CST).



Article 2 – Chapter collaboration with PMI Phoenix Chapter

The Trouble with Continuous Multi-tasking, and How to Avoid It By Gary Hamilton, Jeff Hodgkinson, & Gareth Byatt

―To do two things at once is to do neither‖ - Publilius Syrus,

Picture the following scenario: you have gone into a ―quiet room‖ such as your office or den to write a long-term program or project plan that you have been meaning to get to for several weeks. The plan requires your full concentration, and it has taken

you say three plus weeks to get to because of short-term issues and urgent requests from others that have continually taken priority.

‗Today‘ is the first day you have managed to budget or decided to set aside time to work on it. You are fifteen minutes into your task, but you find yourself struggling to concentrate on it. Your mind wanders. Then you see an email come into the Inbox on

your computer and also your mobile device, which you have put on the desk in full view – both flash at you with the new

message alert. Without thinking twice, you open the email, digest its contents and click Reply. Upon finishing your response, you check something loosely related to it that you were working on last week…and in the space of twenty minutes you are

disconnected mentally from writing the plan you set yourself the task of completing today… does scenario this seem all to familiar?

Take a moment to consider how much of your time at work you spend responding to ad-hoc tasks while having multiple tasks in

progress at once, and compare this to the time you spend on what you consider to be your most important tasks. Does the balance of what you do match up with how you want it to be?

It is arguably true that we are all faced with more and more pressures to multi-task, particularly given the ease today with which we can be contacted, and with which we can contact others. Tackling several tasks in parallel can give us a feeling of high

productivity (after all, it means we are achieving several things simultaneously, right?), but if we continually multi-task we may end up lacking the appropriate level of focus on the ―must do‖ or important tasks we need to complete, and we may find it

difficult to concentrate fully on these specific tasks when we need to.

The more tasks we undertake simultaneously, the more we increase our cognitive workload as those tasks vie for our concentration. If we get ourselves into a loop of continuous multi-tasking, we run the risk of paying ―continuous partial

attention‖ to the activities we undertake (because we have many things milling around in our mind). In fact the numerous switching from small task to task, then refocusing on larger tasks again can cause un-factored delays to your overall

productivity.

It is true that 90% of a Project Manager‘s job is communication, and project management requires us to wear many different hats, but that is not saying that we need to continually multi-task.

Much research exists into efficient ways of working. We do not propose to discuss such theory in this article; rather we wish to highlight some of the challenges of multi-tasking too much.

Here are a few suggestions to consider if you are faced with the challenge of ―continuous multi-tasking‖:

Before you start work each day, think about what your known ―must do‖ and important tasks are, and set yourself a

goal to achieve them – whilst accepting that you won‘t always be able to do everything, because unplanned things may

arise that you urgently need to respond to, or other factors may impede your progress in your ―target tasks‖ causing

you to refocus on others. Don‘t confuse what‘s important or a ―must do‖ with what‘s urgent, however.

As you think about your tasks, take a few minutes to analyze and categorize your daily task list into A, B, and C

priorities.

o ‗A‘s are your ‗must do – critical‘ tasks that you know about, or potentially that crop up during the day. These

need focus ahead of the B‘s.

o ‗B‘s are your ‗should do - important‘ tasks. What you don‘t complete today might become the A‘s tomorrow.

o ‗C‘ are the ‗nice to do – beneficial‘ tasks that can hold off a while, or that you can work on when the A‘s and B‘s

are done or progressed as far as they can be.

When you know you need to focus on something important, block out time in your diary (calendar) and if necessary let

people who work with you know that you will be working on it (you may want to let certain people know how to contact

you in an emergency or if something comes up that is urgent to respond to, and to leave this particular

―communications channel‖ open to them).

Try switching off your electronic and phone messaging tools when you work on important tasks (or keep one

―emergency channel or tone‖ available for the few people who you will allow to contact you).



Turn off or set you status as ―Offline‖ or ―Do not Disturb‖ on your instant messaging application so others are not likely

to ―ping‖ you.

If you are in a room, hang a ‗Do Not Disturb‘ or ‗Priority Interrupts Only‘ sign outside. Or a ‗Post-It‘ note will do fine. If

you are home and the family is there, would you consider wearing your office badge around the house which signifies

you‘re ‗working‘ and invisible for the moment? You never know, it might keep you in a ―work‖ frame of mind.

When you have a complex or detailed task to undertake, know that it can take a while to get into the right frame of

mind, so allow yourself time to ―get into it‖. Try not to resist the temptation to veer off to ―check new emails‖ and the

like. If you have too, close Outlook or other email and take the phone off the hook.

Remember that you choose the attention you give to any given task.

In conclusion, the challenge of multi-tasking is ever-present today. How we choose to allocate time to our tasks determines

what we are able to get done. Striking the right balance between multi-tasking and focusing on singular, important tasks that we want to complete is a challenge for us all.

We hope that reading this short article has not distracted you from something you were working on…!

About

The

Article

Authors,

Their Plans,

And Their Roles

Gareth Byatt, Gary Hamilton, and Jeff Hodgkinson are experienced PMO, program, and

project managers who developed a mutual friendship by realizing they shared a common

passion to help others and share knowledge about PMO, portfolio, program and project management (collectively termed PM below). In February 2010 they decided to collaborate

on a five (5) year goal to write 100 PM subject articles (pro bono) for publication in any/all PM subject websites, newsletters, and professional magazines / journals. They have been

translated into Arabic, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian and published on websites in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, UK, and the USA. Their

mission is to help expand good program and project management practices by promoting the

PM profession, to be a positive influence to the PM Community, and in earnest hope readers can gain benefit from the advice of their 60+ years of combined experience and expertise

(and the expertise of co-authors who write with them on certain articles and subjects). Although all three are well credentialed, together they have the distinction in particular of

being 3 of only 25 worldwide that hold the Project Management Institute‘s PMP®, PgMP®,

and PMI-RMP®. Credentials. Gary and Jeff have all five (5) of the PMI ‗family of credentials‘.

Along with writing articles, each also champions a role in the overall writing program

collaboration process:

→ Gareth manages all requests for additional guest author collaborations

→ Gary manages the article development tracking and readership metrics

→ Jeff manages the article distribution and new readership demographics

Each can be contacted for advice, coaching, collaboration, and speaking individually as noted

in their bios or as a team at: [email protected]

Gareth Byatt is Head of the Group IT Portfolio Management Office for Lend Lease Corporation. Gareth has worked in several countries and lives in Sydney, Australia. Gareth has 14+ years of project, program, and portfolio management experience in IT and construction. He can be contacted through LinkedIn.

Gareth holds numerous degrees, certifications, and credentials in program and project management as follows: an MBA from one of the world‘s leading education establishments, a 1st-class undergraduate management degree, and the PMP®, PgMP®, PMI-RMP®, & PRINCE2 professional certifications. Gareth is also the APAC Region Director for the PMI‘s PMO Community of Practice and chairs several peer networking groups. He is a Director of the PMI Sydney Chapter for 2011.

He has presented on PMOs and program and project management at international conferences in the UK, Australia, & Asia including PMI APAC in 2010. Email Gareth: [email protected]

Gary Hamilton is the Manager of the PMO and Governance within Bank of America‘s Learning and Leadership Development Products organization. Gary lives in Bristol, Tennessee, USA and works out of Charlotte, North Carolina. He has 14+ years of project and program management experience in IT,



http://www.linkedin.com/in/garethbyatt


http://www.linkedin.com/in/garyhamilton



Jeff Hodgkinson is a 31 year veteran of Intel Corporation, where he continues on a progressive career as a program/project manager. He is the most experienced Intel MAPP (Make A Project Plan) Day Facilitator at Intel with over 150 facilitation events to his credit. Jeff is an IT@Intel Expert and blogs on Intel‘s Community for IT Professionals for Program/Project Management subjects and interests. Jeff received the 2010 PMI (Project Mgmt Institute) Distinguished Contribution Award for his support of the Project Management profession from the Project Management Institute. Jeff was also the 2nd place finalist for the 2009 Kerzner International Project Manager of the Year Award TM. He lives in Mesa, Arizona, USA and volunteers as the Associate Vice President for Credentials & Certifications for the Phoenix PMI Chapter. Because of his contributions to helping people achieve their goals, he is the third (3rd) most recommended person on LinkedIn with 525+ recommendations, and is ranked in the Top 75 (currently 60th) most networked LinkedIn person. He gladly accepts all connection invite requests from PM practitioners at: www.linkedin.com/in/jeffhodgkinson. Jeff holds numerous certifications and credentials in program and project management, which are as follows: CCS, CDT, CPC™, CIPM™, CPPM–Level 10, CDRP, CSQE, IPMA-B®, ITIL-F, MPM™, PME™, PMOC, PMP®, PgMP®, PMI-RMP®, PMI-SP®, CAPM®, PMW, and SSGB (Six Sigma Green Belt). He is an expert at program and project management principles and best

Note from the Editor:

We are also reaching out to international PMI chapters and Team India members for knowledge

sharing through this magazine . This article is a case in point of knowledge share

between international PMI chapters (with PMI Phoenix Chapter and PMI Pune Deccan India chapter)

finance, and human resources.

Gary volunteers as the VP of Professional Development for the PMI East Tennessee chapter. Gary has won several internal awards for results achieved from projects and programs he managed as well as being named one of the Business Journal‘s Top 40 Professionals in 2007. He can be contacted through

LinkedIn.

Gary holds numerous degrees and certifications in IT, management, and project management and they include: an advanced MBA degree in finance, and has the PgMP®, PMP®, PMI-RMP®, PMI-SP® , CAPM®, ITIL-F, MCTS, MCITP, and SSGB professional certifications. Gary also is a 2009 Presidents‘ Volunteer Award recipient for his charitable work with local fire services and professional groups. Email Gary: [email protected]

http://www.linkedin/in/jeffhodgkinson

http://www.intel.com/

http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit

http://communities.intel.com/community/openportit

http://www.pmi.org/About-Us/Our-Professional-Awards/2010-PMI-Award-Recipients.aspx

http://www.pmi.org/

http://www.iil.com/kerzneraward/default.asp

http://www.iil.com/kerzneraward/default.asp

http://www.phx-pmi.org/

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffhodgkinson

http://www.linkedin.com/

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffhodgkinson

http://www.40under.com/honorees.shtm

http://www.linkedin.com/in/garyhamilton




Article 3

Mind mapping Technique for Learning on the Fly Niranjan Mirasdar, PMP

In 21st century we live in a Knowledge Society and need a lot of Learning, unlearning and relearning simultaneously. The globally recognized competency dictionary lists 67 competencies required to fulfill any profession, any job in the world. We the

Knowledge workers are under severe pressure to increase our ―Learning on the Fly‖ competency( most important of the 67).The volume of information we need to process is increasing at an exponential rate, so it is very important to optimize. Our brain has

huge potential to learn. Brain can adapt very easily to new environments by learning and can deal with information that is noisy,

inconsistent, vague, or probabilistic. We are still using the age old Learning ways and face challenges in data processing even though we have a very capable brain. To solve these problems there is a requirement for a technique which can efficiently use

different objects for Learning. Objects useful for Learning include words, images, colors, space, branching ,hierarchy ,tree structure etc.

A ideal technique should have a component for sorting and storing patterns. The proposed technique should have a

sufficiently large accuracy rate to be implemented in real life scenarios and a standard algorithm as template with flexibility to adopt

as per problem to be solved. Intelligence is defined as the super power ability of mind to take decisions. It is dynamic in nature and has no limitation to solve various problems linear or non-linear in nature. The main motivation of this article to find a ―intelligent‖

Technique of Learning on the fly(with context capturing). There is a huge set of techniques available for Learning. Bloom‘s taxonomy is a standard framework for levels and methods of learning.

Inspired by the structure of the human brain, Mind maps are designed to capture information efficiently,with precision. Mind mapping is Ideal solution as it is simple to understand, apply and reapply technique. It can be compared to 80,20 rule or Deming

Wheel or Ishikawa diagram. All these tools are simple , generic and have a wide variety of applications.― Choice of proper kernel ‖ is recognized as an open topic for optimization research. Hence a discovery of Image and Text specific Kernel which is called as the

central image in MM terminology reduces the search space for the human mind. Between 20 to30% Branch headings should be in IMAGE/WIMAGE( Words as image) form. An image speaks for thousand words or more and expresses/captures huge essence of the

matter. It is fundamental language of thinking before ideas take shape of symbols in human Language. This hardware or brain

friendly means of info processing increases the retention, throughput and innovation by our mind(necktop).

Mind mapping component useful for various levels of learning as per Bloom’s Taxonomy

Sr no Assessment types

Mind map

application Bloom's verbs

Level1 Knowledge

Laws of MM Count, Define, Describe, Draw, Find, Identify, Label, List, Match,

Name, Quote, Recall, Recite, Sequence, Tell, Write

Level2 Comprehension

Key words, copy MM

Conclude, Demonstrate, Discuss, Explain, Generalize, Identify, Illustrate, Interpret, Paraphrase, Predict, Report, Restate, Review,

Summarize, Tell

Level3 Application

Colors Apply, Change, Choose, Compute, Dramatize, Interview, Prepare,

Produce, Role-play, Select, Show, Transfer, Use

Level4 Analysis

Branching, compare with table, text

format

Analyze, Characterize, Classify, Compare, Contrast, Debate, Deduce, Diagram, Differentiate, Discriminate, Distinguish, Examine,

Outline, Relate, Research, Separate,

Level 5 Synthesis

Gestalt of Mindmap

drawn

Compose, Construct, Create, Design, Develop, Integrate, Invent,

Make, Organize, Perform, Plan, Produce, Propose, Rewrite

Level6 Evaluation

Gestalt of Mindmap

drawn

Appraise, Argue, Assess, Choose, Conclude, Critic, Decide, Evaluate,

Judge, Justify, Predict, Prioritize, Prove, Rank, Rate, Select,

How to draw a Mind map? The Algorithm

Step 1. Start at the centre of a horizontal Blank paper

Step 2 Draw a central image related to the problem under consideration. Step 3 Use tree structure and branching for a improvised classification technique

Step 4. Use WIMAGES, KEYwords on the branch‘s for efficient capturing /classification of ideas generated. Step 5. Branching should be from Thick to thin as per weighting of priority/impact.

Step 6. Use at least 3 colors to keep the mind interested and stimulated in the process. This helps in increasing ………accuracy, speed and generation of new ideas towards solutioning.



The sample mind map show cases application areas of Mind mapping. Brain storming, presentation, visualization,

visualization , managing priorities, teaching ,memorizing ,teaching and organizing, brainstorming

Conclusion

Based on the above discussion it can be concluded that Mind map technique with its six step algorithm significantly improves the Learning process especially on the fly. The conscious use of this technique is recommended from the age of 5 years. It is equally

useful in adult learning especially for those with lesser attention span and less time to spare on learning a particular domain quickly.

It is useful for Learning at all six levels of Blooms Taxonomy as per the reference table.

Links to further info 1.Niranjan‘s Sample Session: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--U2rz-OYp8

2. Tony Buzan on Project Management/Mind mappinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cFmQPL83sA

References:

Blooms Taxonomy wikipedia

Classification state of art method :Website of Prof A k Jain and IITb website

Prof Catarina Silva University of Coimbra ,Portugal.

Prof. Bernardete Ribeiro University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Niranjan Mirasdar email : nmirasdar@ gmail.com

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About the author : Niranjan Mirasdar conducts PMP ++ workshops, he is Worlds First and Only PMP Trainer with International Certifications in

Quality (CSTE - QAI), Mind Mapping (BLI-Tony Buzan),PMP/PMI .He has over 15 years of varied experience and has completed crucial Learning Projects in fortune 500 companies. He believes in Edutainment (Education + Entertainment).Has conducted

session's on a wide variety of topics from Artificial Intelligence to Advance Test Case Design and systematic Innovation tools TRIZ ,

graphical Learning to Unusual Sources of Learning. He has specially designed PMBOK content in a ―brain friendly‖ format for enjoyable, quicker, internalized PM Learning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cFmQPL83sA



Article 4

Soft Skills : People Management Mr.Kartik A.Thakkar (PMP, ITIL, CSSGB, APICS-BSCM)

Introduction:

As a project manager you are ultimately responsible to deliver the project successfully. To deliver projects successfully, it is very

important that people management is practiced and followed systematically. Fig 1 depicts key aspects of People Management discipline thereby facilitating as an enabler to project success.

Following are the areas in people management discipline that would act as an enabler to project success:

i. Setting goals and objectives:

Set Objectives: Make sure that you set a vision and mission for the project. Ensure that every person on the project

understands these goals. It is important to reinforce this at frequent intervals and revisit them to ensure that they remain

relevant to the project. Define Roles: Clearly define the various roles of the people working on the project, and never have any hidden

agenda/roles chalked out for a smaller group. Explain roles even for non-billable/shadow members of your team. Discuss

the responsibilities of the role with the person to ensure that there is consensus and a common understanding.

ii. Managing expectations:

Listen: Make sure that you understand and give attention to the aspirations of each member of your team. Every person

makes a difference to the project, and giving personal attention to each one of them makes them feel wanted and

attended to, improves their confidence levels, and helps you to understand their capabilities so that you can utilize them better on the project.

Appraise periodically: Keep a catalogue of employee performance/improvements over a period of time, and have

periodic meetings to appraise them about it. When you give individuals a detailed and periodic appraisal they get

recognized or corrected, and in turn become more productive in the project. Give opportunities, take chances. Ensure that individuals entering the project get to learn something new before

moving out of the project. Make them learn new things, provide them with new opportunities, and see that they get

benefited by being part of the project. Ensure learning. Make sure people learn from their experiences. Always provide a knowledge/learning dimension to the

work they do. This will motivate people to do better.

iii. Motivation:

Appreciate performance: Have regular team meetings; recognize and appreciate people during these meetings.

Give visibility: Give team members exposure to the top management and customers. Remember, your growth is linked

with theirs. Recognize success: Never wait for a mail from a customer in order to reward a person. A job well-done internally should

also earn a reward. Remember, the team members success is the project‘s success—and ultimately your success.

iv. Communication process:

Encourage an open culture: Have an open culture in the project. Sit with an open door and encourage members to drop

by anytime and talk to you. Make yourself available at all times. Be honest: Always be honest and transparent in your communication. This will go a long way in developing team spirit.

Interact regularly: Have occasional informal sessions with your team members. This improves the interaction with your

team; they become open while discussing issues with you.

Flat reporting hierarchy: Ensure that the reporting hierarchy is as flat as possible.



v. Work environment:

Give importance to teamwork. While there are different styles of encouraging teamwork and collaboration, have your

own style of promoting teamwork.

Create a stimulating environment. Promote knowledge-sharing and innovation. Apart from increasing the level of

awareness across the team, it will fire up high-energy individuals.

References:

1. Human Resource Management at Work: people management and development– Mick Marchington, Adrian Wilkinson. 2. Hard Facts Dangerous Half truths and Total Nonsense – Jeffery Pfeffer, Robert I. Sutton.

Figure 1: Key aspects of People Management discipline thereby facilitating as an enabler to project success is depicted below:

About the author :

Mr. Kartik Thakkar (PMP, ITIL, CSSGB,APICS-BSCM) is ‗Senior Manager-Global Application Management‘ in Business Solution Consulting practice of ‗Siemens Information Systems Limited‘. He has publications in various Journals and Conferences. He has got

rich experience of 15 years in Business Consulting Solutions for various industry verticals working with Automotive and Retail companies. He can be reached at [email protected].




Article 5

They do not know! Vikas Dikshit

What they do not know? They do not know how to motivate! And this is the finding of years and years of observing others and

observing myself.

Well, motivate whom, you may ask. Motivating your child if you are a parent, motivating your spouse if you are married, motivating

an employee if you are a businessman, motivating a customer if you are a salesman, motivating a subordinate if you are a manager, motivating a student if you are a teacher and above all… motivating yourself no matter who you are!

Yes, almost none of them know how to motivate effectively others and self. And without this skill to motivate, our life is significantly

impoverished. What is sadly notable is that parents, managers, teachers etc. generally have not addressed this issue.

Last week I met parents of a ten year old boy. Father wants the boy to play a certain musical instrument that he himself wanted to

play but did not. His music teacher reportedly says, the boy has magical fingers when he plays the instrument. But the boy does not want to learn to play this! And the father is sad because of this. I quickly created rapport with the child. Child confided to me that he

does not want to play that instrument. In my next meeting with all of them, the son visibly winced when the father mentioned the instrument. Some further questions revealed that this music teacher takes a wooden pencil and hits the boy‘s knuckles when a

mistake occurs. I immediately knew why the son does not want to play that instrument. I suggested they stop the music tuition. And

they did that!

Mother wants the son to do well in studies and is worried that his performance in school has gone down in last year and a half. Obviously she has tried and did not succeed. I use the rapport I have with the son. Quickly did mountain exercise and praised the

child. I taught him Anchor dance, which he thoroughly enjoyed, and I praised him once again. I told him how intelligent and brilliant

he is!

Today, barely five days after I met the boy for the first time, his mother called me to tell progress. She was very happy to note, without any prompting, the son, on his own accord, did his studies, insisted that he will not take help of his mother unless he asks

for it, and did most of the mathematic sums on his own. He also did the mountain and the anchor dance on his own. And he continues to do studies and pleasantly surprise his parents! He even painted a picture to show me.

The points I want to highlight here- · That music teacher may be good at playing the instrument. But sure enough he is de-motivating the student by hitting his

knuckles. Very soon the student is lost and there is no one to motivate even if he wants to! (This actually happened now!) · Parents do not know why their son was not motivated to learn the instrument.

· Mother does not know how to motivate her son to do and like studies.

· The teacher and the parents may hit, shout or do such other things and think they are doing all that for the good of the child, but what good does it do if they do not get the desired result?

They do not know how to motivate! Teachers, parents, managers, husbands, wives, businessmen… almost none of them know how to motivate.

And yet it is so simple and easy thing to do for an NLP and Huna practitioner.

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Vikas Dikshit Author of this article is a corporate trainer, an NLP Master Practitioner & Huna Expert. He has conducted several trainings for PMI,

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Accept360 Execution Features and Benefits

The Accept360 Execution module supports the full range of Agile methodologies, including Scrum, Feature-Driven Development, Agile Unified Process, Extreme Programming, and more. It also supports planning methodologies like Stage-Gate™ and PRTM, and even lets you create a hybrid system that draws the best features from multiple methodologies.

The Accept360 Execution module allows you to generate product ideas and priorities from across your ecosystem – including crowdsourcing from customers and other stakeholders. Importantly, it gives you traceability back to the source, so that any user story can be understood in its full richness and intent, not abstracted beyond usefulness with countless retellings.

The purpose of Agile, after all, is agility. The challenge is, if implemented incorrectly or used with the wrong tool, it can actually slow you down – causing developers to burn precious time they simply can‘t waste. The Accept360 Execution module was developed around how Agile teams work.

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• Burndown and velocity reports

• Rolling up the status of work items to their parent requirements

In addition, the Accept360 Execution module offers role-based dashboards for real-time visibility and control, illuminating issues early in the process to drive down risk and improve product/market alignment.

Creating Product Backlogs for Agile Projects

The first step in agile project management is creating a product backlog of all the user stories for the product. The backlog is created in the Roadmaps module as a child of the Roadmap element using a release type element that has no dates set. Once the product backlog is created the user stories can be stack ranked.

Team Resources and Capacity Planning

Teams have a set of members, one of whom is usually the scrum master for the team, and one of whom is the product owner. The remaining members (also called resources) are developers, testers, and so on---the people who implement the user stories and requirements. With Accept360 Execution, you can easily import your existing teams into Accept. Team members can specify their availability for the current sprint, and use the calculated capacity to provision the sprint with the right amount of work. A resource may be 100% allocated to the sprint if he or she is only working with that team, or may have a lower allocation due to being on multiple teams or going on vacation or to a training.

Planning a Sprint

A release is broken into time chunks, called sprints. Sprint duration is typically 14 days, but can be any length that your company chooses. All features and functionality committed to for the sprint must be complete--that is, developed, tested, documented, and (theoretically) ready for delivery. With Accept360 Execution you can:

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Agile Task Board

Accept360 Requirements provides a task board- a simple "sticky notes" interface - to simplify sprint planning, sprint management, and daily stand up meetings. The Agile Task Board is arranged by user story and task status. Each task on the Task Board displays the name of the task, the task owner, and the estimated hours to complete the task.

Daily Scrum Activities

The task board supports the daily scrum stand up meeting. Using the task board, the team members or the scrum master team members or the scrum master can update task status, update the hours burndown, reassign tasks to other team members, and create additional tasks as needed. Task status can be changed by simply dragging a task from one status to another. The task board also provides access to the team's burndown report, and it's easy to "click through" the task board to Accept's rich user interface if anyone wants to see more detailed data or trace back to the market drivers for a particular user story.

Sprint Planning Activities

The agile task board can also be used for the sprint planning meeting. In the sprint meeting the team uses the Task Board to create tasks for user stories, enter points for user stories, estimate completion time, and assign tasks to team members.

Benefits:

Agile methodology was originally created for use by small teams, working together in a single location. By its very nature, Agile development can break down when used across multiple distributed teams, or on projects with long development cycles. Yet even in these more challenging situations, the Accept360 Execution module delivers visibility, traceability, quality, and accountability – the central concepts of Agile practice – and helps keep Agile projects on track

According to a leading storage and systems management solutions provider, Accept360 Execution helped them with faster time to release by over 35%. The initiative supporting the big release involved over 300 engineers and multiple global teams with the goal to reduce time to release. Accept360 helped with program management of the entire initiative equivalent to 3600 man months release efforts resulting in a significant decrease of release time from 6 months to 2 months. In addition, they used Accept360 to link and track market requirements to team story and user levels benefiting from a single platform with strategic and detailed views as required.

The beauty of Accept360 Execution is that it gives product managers and product owners what they need to do their own jobs better – and natively translates the project into the language with the details and justification that developers need to do their best work. Scrum team leads can monitor development progress within and across iterations, while developers can view the source and market need of the features they‘re building, if they require keener insight. So your Agile projects actually result in greater agility.

As the one system of record for your backlog, the Accept360 Execution module provides clarity and process visibility, keeping your sprint running at full speed. And as the timebox burns down, Agile teams can make informed tradeoff decisions that deliver the best strategic outcome.

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PMI Pune Chapter is happy to announce its next PMP Training Program in Pune.

This course is aimed at facilitating the complete and comprehensive studies necessary for appearing for and clearing the Project Management Professional (PMP(r)) examination. The course brings in the complete detailed understanding of Project Management Body of Knowledge, 4th Edition - (PMBOK(r) while providing an opportunity of answering over 200 practice exam questions from recognized material.

Although this course is designed and developed keeping in mind PMP(r) examination preparation, the discussions triggered and effectively facilitated by the facilitator leads to insight of many real life scenarios.

Learning Objectives

The course will enable participants to -

Understand the complete picture of PMBOK(r)

Understand the 5 process groups and 9 knowledge areas as described in the PMBOK (r)

Understand inputs, outputs, tools & techniques essential for each of the Project management processes described in PMBOK(r)

Learn the effective approach to confidently appearing for the examination

Gain a solid confidence of undertaking the examination

Knowledge Areas: Scope, Time, Cost, Quality, HR, Communication, Risk, Procurement & Integration

Process Group: Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, & Closing.

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The course demands clear focus and commitment from the participants to study and take up the examination.

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Participants would be benefited if they are the members of PMI(r). The membership can be obtained on www.pmi.org. The membership enables the participants to receive the PMBOK(r) free (soft copy).

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