I heard a great strategy plan the other day for mid-progress development for project management and effective execution. It's a simple three step process of reassess, recalculate, and reinforce.
Reassess requires us to evaluate our teams, resources, effectiveness, and movement toward goal. It's painful, but good for development. This requires us to draw in other perspectives and carefully address progress.
Recalculation requires that we take our lessons learned and, as a team, work to develop tweaks and refinements to our strategies. Rarely are strategies perfect from the onset, great success hinges on the ability to flex mid-stream.
Reinforce requires that we take these previous two lessons and carefully allocate proper resources for continued effectiveness and success.
These three simple steps can help guide us through quick evaluation of progress management and milestone evaluation.
Showing posts with label Productivity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Productivity. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Measuring Outcome vs. Activity
How many of us have seen people who work all the time and seem to accomplish next to nothing. Even worse, they are commended for their hard work.
There's a simple principle of measuring outcome vs. activity.
If we're measuring outcome then we've created some definition or baseline for what success looks like. We've given success body and we've given it meaning. Activity, though good for looks, is mostly empty air. It rarely reaps benefit.
There are two angles we should all take on this. The first is to analyze what we do on a daily basis and evaluate if it's for outcome or activity. Second, we should couch those who work on our teams the difference and instill value in our teams for outcome, and not activity.
This is an easy thing to fall into as most people hold 8-5 jobs. The 8-5 structure can dampen a work ethic as it seems you need to fill time more than you need to fill work needs. None the less, our responsibility is still to be productive in producing outcome. Don't let the 8-5 trap build complacency.
There's a simple principle of measuring outcome vs. activity.
If we're measuring outcome then we've created some definition or baseline for what success looks like. We've given success body and we've given it meaning. Activity, though good for looks, is mostly empty air. It rarely reaps benefit.
There are two angles we should all take on this. The first is to analyze what we do on a daily basis and evaluate if it's for outcome or activity. Second, we should couch those who work on our teams the difference and instill value in our teams for outcome, and not activity.
This is an easy thing to fall into as most people hold 8-5 jobs. The 8-5 structure can dampen a work ethic as it seems you need to fill time more than you need to fill work needs. None the less, our responsibility is still to be productive in producing outcome. Don't let the 8-5 trap build complacency.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Impact vs. Benefit
When chartering a project it's good to discuss both the impact and the benefit. But these are two separate activities and perspective.
Impact are the results that manifest themselves from your effort. These impacts should be measurable and easy to understand. You should be able to measure some impact points immediately after your activity and then others manifest themselves through time. Both are important to measure.
Benefits are the aide and boost that's given to each area. Many times a benefits analysis is broken into all parties involved. Benefits project who is impacted and how. They are your goals for who takes gain and growth from the effort.
Impact and Benefits should not be mistaken as the same point. The key difference is that Impact points are the results outside that are measurable and benefits are the less tangible results with teams involved.
Challenge: Think through both impact and benefits as you charter any new project. It will help you map a much better strategy and potential for results management.
Impact are the results that manifest themselves from your effort. These impacts should be measurable and easy to understand. You should be able to measure some impact points immediately after your activity and then others manifest themselves through time. Both are important to measure.
Benefits are the aide and boost that's given to each area. Many times a benefits analysis is broken into all parties involved. Benefits project who is impacted and how. They are your goals for who takes gain and growth from the effort.
Impact and Benefits should not be mistaken as the same point. The key difference is that Impact points are the results outside that are measurable and benefits are the less tangible results with teams involved.
Challenge: Think through both impact and benefits as you charter any new project. It will help you map a much better strategy and potential for results management.
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