Last week I wrote a post called “Be The Change You Wish To See“.
This week I cover the same topic in a 2 minute video.
Which one has more impact in delivering the message? Which one captures my emotions about this topic? Text or video?
How do you get your team to do the right thing?
Show them. Do the right thing yourself. If you want to see some fabulous behavior in your team, be fabulous first.
In this episode of “The Project Shrink” I am talking to Jerry Manas. Jerry is an organizational architect and author of two books: “Napoleon on Project Management” and “Managing The Gray Areas”. We are talking about the “gray areas”.
Managing projects is all about finding balances, finding the right touch for the right occasion. Jerry has has identified 6 of these balances and calls them “gray areas”.
He answers the following questions:
You can watch the interview below or follow this link to YouTube.com.
You can find more information about Jerry on his company website, or you can visit his blog.
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We all know that the key ingredient to successful outsourcing is frequent and fast feedback; keep your customer in the loop, let him know about your progress and problems and get him involved.
Next to “communication” the keyword is “transparency”.
What happens if you take this to the next level? What if the productivity of the developers is captured by a third party? What if the “know-how” of your team members is directly visible to your customers? Talk about Transparency!
Programeter has just launched their Outsourcing edition. As a service provider you use it to check in your code base and it provides you productivity and competence metrics. Now your customers can view the same metrics.
Image by Programeter.
“Look at contributions of your project team members while they proceed with development of your software product code, and mitigate project risks with an unmatched level of remote project transparency.”
Is this the ultimate transparency? Will this be a new prerequisite for service providers; “you have to be on Programeter to earn our business”?
What do you think?
Within Project Management we use a lot of metrics. The metrics will provide some relatively objective “description” on how the project is doing. They are the Project Managers’ seismometer, they record if your project world is rocking, and how hard. Traditionally our metrics are focused on time and money. But how about that all important resource, the developer? Programeter is a tool that provides “meaningful productivity metrics”. That sounds intriguing enough to have a chat with Mark Kofman, CEO of Programeter.
1. Programeter is a tool that measures “meaningful” productivity metrics. What do you measure and why is it considered “meaningful”?
First of all, it is important to mention that Programeter is focused on measurement of teams and individuals. In contrast to many other measurement tools in software development we do not measure quality of the code. We try to provide information about the most valuable resource in the software development and it is developers themselves. There are two important aspects which Programeter is measuring. It is CONTRIBUTION and KNOW-HOW.
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