Comments on: Give the Gift of Communications http://thecriticalpath.info/2010/03/09/gift-the-gift-of-communications/ Free Project Management Information, Advice, and Templates Sun, 20 May 2012 12:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Geoff Crane http://thecriticalpath.info/2010/03/09/gift-the-gift-of-communications/comment-page-1/#comment-1533 Geoff Crane Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:58:33 +0000 http://thecriticalpath.info/?p=2345#comment-1533 What I've done in the past is to get my company to cough up a little gas money and I drive back and forth if I need to speak with or meet team members or stakeholders. One project I'm thinking about in particular where there were more bodies on that project than there were pills in my Xanax bottle. LOL I'd drive to one place, meet, make deals, negotiate, book it over to another, relay what I'd just learned / done, cut another deal, boot over to the next place, and so on. Just before day-end I'd grab my staff, wrangle them into a room and fill them in on the latest, and my decisions regarding tomorrow's plan. It meant I was pretty tired at the end of the day, but it was a super fast and efficient way to deliver all the information that was constantly changing. It meant everyone was fully up to speed on the latest developments, which I look at as one of the most important jobs of any PM. It also meant I didn't have to read so many e-mails. LOL .-= Geoff Crane´s last blog ..<a href="http://edge.papercutpm.com/2010/03/twitterview-with-jhaymee-wilson/" rel="nofollow">Twitterview with Jhaymee Wilson</a> =-. What I’ve done in the past is to get my company to cough up a little gas money and I drive back and forth if I need to speak with or meet team members or stakeholders. One project I’m thinking about in particular where there were more bodies on that project than there were pills in my Xanax bottle. LOL

I’d drive to one place, meet, make deals, negotiate, book it over to another, relay what I’d just learned / done, cut another deal, boot over to the next place, and so on. Just before day-end I’d grab my staff, wrangle them into a room and fill them in on the latest, and my decisions regarding tomorrow’s plan.

It meant I was pretty tired at the end of the day, but it was a super fast and efficient way to deliver all the information that was constantly changing. It meant everyone was fully up to speed on the latest developments, which I look at as one of the most important jobs of any PM.

It also meant I didn’t have to read so many e-mails. LOL
.-= Geoff Crane´s last blog ..Twitterview with Jhaymee Wilson =-.

]]> By: Geoff Crane http://thecriticalpath.info/2010/03/09/gift-the-gift-of-communications/comment-page-1/#comment-3113 Geoff Crane Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:58:00 +0000 http://thecriticalpath.info/?p=2345#comment-3113 What I've done in the past is to get my company to cough up a little gas money and I drive back and forth if I need to speak with or meet team members or stakeholders. One project I'm thinking about in particular where there were more bodies on that project than there were pills in my Xanax bottle. LOL I'd drive to one place, meet, make deals, negotiate, book it over to another, relay what I'd just learned / done, cut another deal, boot over to the next place, and so on. Just before day-end I'd grab my staff, wrangle them into a room and fill them in on the latest, and my decisions regarding tomorrow's plan. It meant I was pretty tired at the end of the day, but it was a super fast and efficient way to deliver all the information that was constantly changing. It meant everyone was fully up to speed on the latest developments, which I look at as one of the most important jobs of any PM. It also meant I didn't have to read so many e-mails. LOL .-= Geoff Crane´s last blog ..<a href="http://edge.papercutpm.com/2010/03/twitterview-with-jhaymee-wilson/" rel="nofollow">Twitterview with Jhaymee Wilson</a> =-. What I’ve done in the past is to get my company to cough up a little gas money and I drive back and forth if I need to speak with or meet team members or stakeholders. One project I’m thinking about in particular where there were more bodies on that project than there were pills in my Xanax bottle. LOL

I’d drive to one place, meet, make deals, negotiate, book it over to another, relay what I’d just learned / done, cut another deal, boot over to the next place, and so on. Just before day-end I’d grab my staff, wrangle them into a room and fill them in on the latest, and my decisions regarding tomorrow’s plan.

It meant I was pretty tired at the end of the day, but it was a super fast and efficient way to deliver all the information that was constantly changing. It meant everyone was fully up to speed on the latest developments, which I look at as one of the most important jobs of any PM.

It also meant I didn’t have to read so many e-mails. LOL
.-= Geoff Crane´s last blog ..Twitterview with Jhaymee Wilson =-.

]]> By: Derek Huether http://thecriticalpath.info/2010/03/09/gift-the-gift-of-communications/comment-page-1/#comment-1532 Derek Huether Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:05:18 +0000 http://thecriticalpath.info/?p=2345#comment-1532 Thanks Geoff! What's going to happen now is a fragmented series of emails is going to go out, with a fragmented series of responses. Decisions will be made by some and others will be asking how it came to pass. It is a tragedy when people think the only transfer of information takes place during these meetings. What I experience, is more informal communications before and after the meetings results in more understanding and progress. All people should really need is the opportunity to interact and communicate...and they should take it. Thanks Geoff! What’s going to happen now is a fragmented series of emails is going to go out, with a fragmented series of responses. Decisions will be made by some and others will be asking how it came to pass. It is a tragedy when people think the only transfer of information takes place during these meetings. What I experience, is more informal communications before and after the meetings results in more understanding and progress. All people should really need is the opportunity to interact and communicate…and they should take it.

]]> By: Derek Huether http://thecriticalpath.info/2010/03/09/gift-the-gift-of-communications/comment-page-1/#comment-3112 Derek Huether Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:05:00 +0000 http://thecriticalpath.info/?p=2345#comment-3112 Thanks Geoff! What's going to happen now is a fragmented series of emails is going to go out, with a fragmented series of responses. Decisions will be made by some and others will be asking how it came to pass. It is a tragedy when people think the only transfer of information takes place during these meetings. What I experience, is more informal communications before and after the meetings results in more understanding and progress. All people should really need is the opportunity to interact and communicate...and they should take it. Thanks Geoff! What’s going to happen now is a fragmented series of emails is going to go out, with a fragmented series of responses. Decisions will be made by some and others will be asking how it came to pass. It is a tragedy when people think the only transfer of information takes place during these meetings. What I experience, is more informal communications before and after the meetings results in more understanding and progress. All people should really need is the opportunity to interact and communicate…and they should take it.

]]> By: Geoff Crane http://thecriticalpath.info/2010/03/09/gift-the-gift-of-communications/comment-page-1/#comment-1531 Geoff Crane Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:56:30 +0000 http://thecriticalpath.info/?p=2345#comment-1531 Bang on, smack on point. Communication is the fundamental force that drives projects. It makes me crazy when communications meetings are the first to be scrapped because folks are too busy. I find it so ironic because work winds up getting wasted, duplicated or done the wrong way because the people doing the work didn't know about a change...that they would have found out about in the meeting they were too busy to attend! .-= Geoff Crane´s last blog ..<a href="http://edge.papercutpm.com/2010/03/twitterview-with-jhaymee-wilson/" rel="nofollow">Twitterview with Jhaymee Wilson</a> =-. Bang on, smack on point. Communication is the fundamental force that drives projects. It makes me crazy when communications meetings are the first to be scrapped because folks are too busy. I find it so ironic because work winds up getting wasted, duplicated or done the wrong way because the people doing the work didn’t know about a change…that they would have found out about in the meeting they were too busy to attend!
.-= Geoff Crane´s last blog ..Twitterview with Jhaymee Wilson =-.

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