Haiku for project managers - productivity
From the Haiku for Project Managers Blog
by Robert Prol
Because sometimes poetry makes the point better than a long story.
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I've studied the task /
It makes no sense to do it /
I'll get started now
Posted on: March 16, 2016 11:59 PM |
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Mike Frenette
Manager, IT PMO| Halifax Water (retired)
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
A task worth doing /
Is a task that has value /
If not, don't do it!
;)
Robert Prol
Project Manager| KPMG LLP
East Sandwich, Ma, United States
Sometimes the effort to do the task is easier than arguing why it's a waste of time.
Mike Frenette
Manager, IT PMO| Halifax Water (retired)
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Have a hyperlink? /
Use in communications /
To reduce effort.
Mike Frenette
Manager, IT PMO| Halifax Water (retired)
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
I added this, Robert, since the topic is productivity. One of my pet peeves is when someone references something buried in a site somewhere and either don't provide a link to the site at all, or provide one to the Home page and you get to spend precious time trying to search for what they are referencing. I find it so easy just to hyperlink one or two of the words in a communication so that clicking it will take the reader straight to the place. And when you send a communication to hundreds of people, it can save a lot of individual effort and sometimes a lot of frustration too.
Now that's a task worth doing!
:)
Mike Frenette
Manager, IT PMO| Halifax Water (retired)
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
And - yes - sometimes doing something useless is easier than arguing against doing it.
On the other hand an investment of time in that argument/discussion might prevent recurrences of the same useless task or even similar tasks in the future.
My thoughts go to systems that produce reports that no one reads, and yet someone has a task to distribute the report to someone who never reads it. The resource consumed to produce the report, distribute it and discard it can sometimes be downright depressing, even for electronic reports.
Report arrived now /
Useless as always it is /
Please stop sending it!
;)
Robert Prol
Project Manager| KPMG LLP
East Sandwich, Ma, United States
I have a few Haikus about the useless reporting that PMs are subjected to.
The useless activities are usually best completed, so there's real data to drive the discussion. It's often our role to beat people with a reality stick.
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