http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2005/03/spending-time-with-the-schedule-or-the-people.html Management, especially good management, is hard to do. This blog is for people who want to think about how they manage people, projects, and risk. Fri, 18 May 2012 15:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2005/03/spending-time-with-the-schedule-or-the-people.html/comment-page-1#comment-99 Len Van Tassell Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:41:56 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=8172#comment-99 When are people going to learn that they manage people not tasks. Staring at a screen isn't going to tell you that there's going to be a problem or a schedule slip - speaking to the folks doing the work will. When are people going to learn that they manage people not tasks. Staring at a screen isn’t going to tell you that there’s going to be a problem or a schedule slip – speaking to the folks doing the work will.

]]> http://www.jrothman.com/blog/mpd/2005/03/spending-time-with-the-schedule-or-the-people.html/comment-page-1#comment-98 James Bullock Sat, 02 Apr 2005 21:11:19 +0000 http://jrothman.com/blog/mpd/?p=8172#comment-98 Good lord, JR. 4 or 5 leads out of 20 (plus a few?) Plus a day a week mucking with the WBS? In aid of what, exactly? I have about a dozen / maybe fifteen (depends on what counts as working on the team I'm responsible for these days (depends on what counts as "on the team"). On average, I talk with each one of them between once and twice a day. I talk about half as frequently with folks on teams we work closely with - test engineers for example. WBS, PERT, Gantt & other instruments are wonderful things. (I have a couple of my own that expose some unique things.) In the end, a tracking instrument is just a tracking instrument, and somehow the work has to happen. Didn't everybody notice "Management By Wandering Around" back when HP was kicking everybody's butt by doing things "the HP way?" Sheesh. () Good lord, JR. 4 or 5 leads out of 20 (plus a few?) Plus a day a week mucking with the WBS? In aid of what, exactly?
I have about a dozen / maybe fifteen (depends on what counts as working on the team I’m responsible for these days (depends on what counts as “on the team”). On average, I talk with each one of them between once and twice a day. I talk about half as frequently with folks on teams we work closely with – test engineers for example.
WBS, PERT, Gantt & other instruments are wonderful things. (I have a couple of my own that expose some unique things.) In the end, a tracking instrument is just a tracking instrument, and somehow the work has to happen.
Didn’t everybody notice “Management By Wandering Around” back when HP was kicking everybody’s butt by doing things “the HP way?”
Sheesh. ()

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