Deepesh RammoorthyICT Project Manager ( PMP®AgilePM®Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®))| Australian Red Cross Blood ServiceTarneit, Vic, Australia
Sorry but the project manager focuses on responsibility and deliverable. As long as work is done in time, of good quality and the team members are approachable and good team players I wouldn't care less if they spent two hours per day on social media
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1 reply by HAWAZIN ABBASI
Jun 28, 2017 12:01 AM
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Does your company have an Internet or mobile device use policies in place during working hours?
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HAWAZIN ABBASICEO/ Project Manager| SMART Leaders SolutionsLincoln, Ne, United States
Jun 27, 2017 11:55 PM
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Sorry but the project manager focuses on responsibility and deliverable. As long as work is done in time, of good quality and the team members are approachable and good team players I wouldn't care less if they spent two hours per day on social media
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HAWAZIN ABBASICEO/ Project Manager| SMART Leaders SolutionsLincoln, Ne, United States
Jun 27, 2017 11:24 PM
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Cant agree more ! This is exactly came into my mind reading the question.
we do a lot of productivity measurement for equipment and construction quantities. But when it comes to employee productivity its measured more in terms of deliverables / Schedule rather than individuals. Well, if there is a issue with productivity, what could be the root cause, mostly, it s outside employees control and mostly dependent on management,
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Deepesh RammoorthyICT Project Manager ( PMP®AgilePM®Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®))| Australian Red Cross Blood ServiceTarneit, Vic, Australia
Jun 27, 2017 11:44 PM
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Dr. Sergio,
You are a project manager, and you handle an important project, you notice an employee texting or surfing several times during working hours, instead of focus in his or her task(waste working time), how you react?
Have you allocated tasks to this employee? Have you given them a deadline? Have you shared the desired quality of the deliverable? Do they know what to focus on ?
On the other hand Are they delaying their work because of Internet Surfing? Are they missing a deadline? Are they using the work computers to browse non important sites or running a business or accessing sites that contravene work policies? Have you audited their time sheet? are they consistently putting 8 hours on Project work and are they consistently browsing the internet for 2 hours at a stretch?
You can remind them through one on one conversation that they should use their work hours for the benefit of the organization and that they are using excessive time on personal mobile phone or internet . You can even give the warnings as per HR policy
But You cannot monitor every day of every hour that they are working. You will not have any employees in your company if you resort to such extreme practices Saving Changes...
This comes to my mind when I read through this discussion. Risk Management clubbed with Human Resource Management.
A resource (Time, Money, Opportunity to do more tasks) wasted is clearly a loss. Proficiency is linked with resource efficiency. You compute Efficiency by computing the work done on a task in given time. If it is on track and visible progress is there it is good. If you see more breaks then you know the resource is underutilized or he is too smart for the task and finishes it fast. If it is a missfit then there would be negative impacts on the timeline and quality of work..
Monitor and Control needs to be bettered if you are facing project proficiency issues.
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1 reply by Deepesh Rammoorthy
Jun 28, 2017 1:08 AM
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You nailed it Paras. Exactly what I was trying to say from those two Knowledge areas of PMP
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Deepesh RammoorthyICT Project Manager ( PMP®AgilePM®Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®))| Australian Red Cross Blood ServiceTarneit, Vic, Australia
Very Simple question Hawazin......Would you like to sit next to a camera or be told that there is a hidden camera watching your every move like a Big Brother? Would you work in such a company? Would that make me productive? Out of what? Fear?
use tool like Time Doctor to monitor working hours and miss time..
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1 reply by HAWAZIN ABBASI
Jun 28, 2017 2:41 PM
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please check your inbox! Thank you!
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Deepesh RammoorthyICT Project Manager ( PMP®AgilePM®Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®))| Australian Red Cross Blood ServiceTarneit, Vic, Australia
Jun 28, 2017 12:16 AM
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This comes to my mind when I read through this discussion. Risk Management clubbed with Human Resource Management.
A resource (Time, Money, Opportunity to do more tasks) wasted is clearly a loss. Proficiency is linked with resource efficiency. You compute Efficiency by computing the work done on a task in given time. If it is on track and visible progress is there it is good. If you see more breaks then you know the resource is underutilized or he is too smart for the task and finishes it fast. If it is a missfit then there would be negative impacts on the timeline and quality of work..
Monitor and Control needs to be bettered if you are facing project proficiency issues.
You nailed it Paras. Exactly what I was trying to say from those two Knowledge areas of PMP
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1 reply by HAWAZIN ABBASI
Jun 28, 2017 2:42 PM
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Please, check your inbox:), thank you!
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Ramachandran SwaminathanRegional Delivery Manager| Oracle Consulting IndiaBangalore, Karnataka, India
Hawazin,
Deepesh and others have given excellent answers. I would like to know couple of things before attempting to answer the larger question.
1. Is your organization trying to bring in the policies on time IN/OUT and employee monitoring technology and asking you opinion as a PM. If this is the case, try to convince your higher mgmt that this is not a good idea. If they have already decided that the policy would be rolled out and asking you to comply, then you dont have a choice
2. If you want to bring in these policies in your project team, then it would backfire. You need to monitor employee performance on a case-by-case basis and take corrective actions for each employee. Bringing in these policies in general would alienate even a well performing employee and no-one in the world likes to be watched over or monitored
Happy to help you in case of any further queries
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1 reply by HAWAZIN ABBASI
Jun 28, 2017 2:55 PM
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Thanks a lot Mr. Ramachandran,
Please, check you inbox:), thank you!
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Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
Jun 27, 2017 11:51 PM
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Doing things in the right way.
That is not productivity. That is, could say, quality assurance. But if productivity is that for your organization go ahead. But you have to work on quality.
