ABC of Project Management by Excel With Business

Risk --> tabulate if it impacts Scope, Quality, Schedule and Cost and what the response will be when encountered.
What we are not using in the IC Design World is exit criteria.

Stakeholder classification : Unaware, Resistant, Neutral, Supportive, Leading.

Tame the project by creating a Work Breakdown Structure
\___  Requirements Traceability Matrix

ID, Task Name, Description, Resource Type, Effort Hours

Rate Yourself, Your Peers, Your Team! Make sure everyone has some deliverable due this week - that way you easily build a database of 50 items per person.

• Completes tasks on time? No excuses - give the person credit for completing a task early. Don't record yes/no - record in terms of days late.
• Deliverables meet quality standards? A very good one. A bum telling you the simulation and accompanying report are done might end up wasting 2 hours of the team's time.
• Delivers expected scope within budget?

Gems :

One of the ways in which you can discern whether your employer or your business is on its way to driving growth through 21st-century ‘customer obsession’ is to look at the ways it acquires, collates and shares data on its customers’ buying behaviours. Over the next week, in your dealings with different parts of your company, try and observe how different parts of the business deal with customers and customer data.

Tom  Coughlin :

You can't guarantee a win, but, through hard work, you can earn the right to win. If you've earned the right to win, you can sleep soundly before the big game. The more you sweat, the less you bleed.