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As a project manager, you will need to identify the resources to be included in the different tasks of the project. This activity may turn difficult and may become a roadblock in the selection process.

My recommendation is to use the “Chinese Army Approach,” which literally has unlimited resources, and assign roles or skills required instead of names of resources.

When this activity is completed, the project manager will have scoped all the required resources and then will be able to identify the internal resources that can fulfill the role or the skill; and those that cannot be fulfilled can be sourced from other groups or vendors.

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Sun, 17 Oct 2010 12:18:00 -0700 Time Constrains, Schedule and Other Issues Impacting Projects #pmot #pmp #pm #leadership http://thesmartpms.posterous.com/time-constrains-schedule-and-other-issues-imp http://thesmartpms.posterous.com/time-constrains-schedule-and-other-issues-imp

Project Management professionals still consider meeting the schedule as one of the critical success factors of their projects. Although meeting the schedule is important, nowadays projects may be considered successful if they bring the expected incremental benefits to the community, employees and the organization that pay for the proyect. 

In a global team, the concept of time may differ and the "interpretation" of the schedule may vary from country to country. Among it's main functions project managers need to consider the cultural factor in their project teams to ensure that milestones will be completed as planned.

How would you deal with a team member in which his/hers language or dialect there is no words to describe the future? Would this be a roadblock for your project? Phil Zimbardo describes on his video "The secret Powers of Time" the different concepts of time across different geographies and religions views.

This video is a must for all those project manager that have not consider the time perception impact on their projects teams.  

Enjoy!!

 

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