This is the first post on my new blog about project management. This is part of the masters program in IT Project Management that I have started in Stockholm University. Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This magnificent quote describes perfectly the objective of the blog. I would like to put […]
Remote working is becoming increasingly popular in IT related organizations. Working from home not only benefits employees by eliminating their daily stressful commutes, loud colleges in open offices and impromptu meetings, but it also seems to boost productivity and lead to a healthier lifestyle according to recent research by Airtasker. This new setting might be […]
Admittedly, leaders are probably the worst in taking on negative feedback. There is a simple explanation for this: once a certain position of power is achieved, a person usually receives less and less feedback. People are often afraid or do not have the enough confidence to speak up and point out a flaw in their […]
Emotional intelligence can be defined as the ability to recognise, understand and manage emotions in ourselves and others (taken from the Maetreix website). This is clearly a key soft skill for Program and Project managers, being other fellow humans their most valuable asset for achieving success. In the era of individualism and nationalisms, mankind craves […]
In today’s entry, we continue with the topic of employee skills with one that is often miscategorized as a soft skill: critical thinking. To set-up the stage, critical thinking can be defined as the ability to solve problems effectively by systematically gathering information about an issue, generating further ideas involving a variety of perspectives, evaluating […]
This is certainly the most dreaded part during an interview. It can go either way: the interviewee becomes tense and start mentioning incoherent thoughts or becomes quite fluent and adds up unnecessary information. Personally, I can relate to the former situation, especially when I was in the lookout for my first job. What actually should […]
I am quite certain that a categorical YES will be your immediate answer, so as it was mine. Think twice! If any signs of doubt have arisen, this post might be interesting you as it will introduce a prioritization mechanism that I have recently read about: the MoSCoW matrix. Managing your time without setting priorities […]
This is one of the key questions that a leadership team should be constantly bringing into discussion and reflection. Clearly, when having many people looking up to you for inspiration and direction, it can become somehow hard to sense the kind of atmosphere certain projects create in a team. As a leader this must be […]
We can all agree that email is one of the main productivity killers. I often devote myself almost one hour daily to sort out and quickly go through my always quite populated inbox. I can assume that this fact applies, without must variation, to most of us. In this post, I would like to share […]
According to the Agile organization, pairing programming is a collaborative exercise in which two developers share one workstation. The person at the keyboard is usually called the “driver”, while the other is the “navigator” being her focus on the overall direction. It is expected that they swap roles every few minutes or so. The goal […]
One of the main misconceptions generating lots of resistance during a Digital Transformation is the mentality that digital processes must be perfect. More precisely, this usually happens with AI algorithms. Most people often overestimate what they can do, and in case of any mistakes, they are sent back to the drawing board or the learning […]
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