Comments on: Lessons from One Week | One Tool – Part 1, Project Management http://www.foundhistory.org/2010/07/28/lessons-from-one-week-one-tool-part-1-project-management/ by Tom Scheinfeldt Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:11:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tom Scheinfeldt http://www.foundhistory.org/2010/07/28/lessons-from-one-week-one-tool-part-1-project-management/comment-page-1/#comment-9966 Tom Scheinfeldt Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:34:50 +0000 http://www.foundhistory.org/2010/07/28/lessons-from-one-week-one-tool-part-1-project-management/#comment-9966 Thanks, Nina. I absolutely agree. If you're going to operate this way, you have to be accountable and let everyone know you are. Truman had a magic sentence too: http://bit.ly/pYKA8 Thanks, Nina. I absolutely agree. If you’re going to operate this way, you have to be accountable and let everyone know you are. Truman had a magic sentence too: http://bit.ly/pYKA8

]]> By: Nina Simon http://www.foundhistory.org/2010/07/28/lessons-from-one-week-one-tool-part-1-project-management/comment-page-1/#comment-9964 Nina Simon Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:53:24 +0000 http://www.foundhistory.org/2010/07/28/lessons-from-one-week-one-tool-part-1-project-management/#comment-9964 When I ran an incredibly compressed exhibition development process with a team used to having a lot more time to work, I found two things invaluable: 1. Tom's #1: snap decisions. As I would say, "we can just as easily make a bad decision in a day instead of in months." 2. Being accountable. Whenever a team member became concerned that we needed multiple layers of approval, or that we were plowing ahead without that approval, I said one magic sentence: "Blame me." Even though to my knowledge no one on the team was ever pressed by management about the project, knowing that I would stand up for them and take the responsibility 100% made everyone confident about continuing. And we made a great freaking exhibit. When I ran an incredibly compressed exhibition development process with a team used to having a lot more time to work, I found two things invaluable:
1. Tom’s #1: snap decisions. As I would say, “we can just as easily make a bad decision in a day instead of in months.”
2. Being accountable. Whenever a team member became concerned that we needed multiple layers of approval, or that we were plowing ahead without that approval, I said one magic sentence: “Blame me.” Even though to my knowledge no one on the team was ever pressed by management about the project, knowing that I would stand up for them and take the responsibility 100% made everyone confident about continuing.

And we made a great freaking exhibit.

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]]> By: Academic Commons News » One Week | One Tool: The Reveal http://www.foundhistory.org/2010/07/28/lessons-from-one-week-one-tool-part-1-project-management/comment-page-1/#comment-9953 Academic Commons News » One Week | One Tool: The Reveal Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:15:59 +0000 http://www.foundhistory.org/2010/07/28/lessons-from-one-week-one-tool-part-1-project-management/#comment-9953 [...] about #oneweek itself by checking out the archive of #oneweek tweets, which includes to a number of excellent posts written by the participants, including [...] [...] about #oneweek itself by checking out the archive of #oneweek tweets, which includes to a number of excellent posts written by the participants, including [...]

]]> By: Amanda French http://www.foundhistory.org/2010/07/28/lessons-from-one-week-one-tool-part-1-project-management/comment-page-1/#comment-9918 Amanda French Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:06:34 +0000 http://www.foundhistory.org/2010/07/28/lessons-from-one-week-one-tool-part-1-project-management/#comment-9918 Boy, I sure agree with #2 in particular. I could a tale unfold about one particularly protracted decision-making process. I had a definite opinion on what the decision should be, but after weeks and eventually months of research and argument and discussion, I was so, so willing to have the decision go against me if only someone would bloody well make the decision, any decision. One big problem was that no one knew whose decision it was: it was everyone's and no one's. In retrospect, that should've been the first thing we decided -- who the leader was. Leaderlessness is rarely a good option. Boy, I sure agree with #2 in particular. I could a tale unfold about one particularly protracted decision-making process. I had a definite opinion on what the decision should be, but after weeks and eventually months of research and argument and discussion, I was so, so willing to have the decision go against me if only someone would bloody well make the decision, any decision.

One big problem was that no one knew whose decision it was: it was everyone’s and no one’s. In retrospect, that should’ve been the first thing we decided — who the leader was. Leaderlessness is rarely a good option.

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