Prosperous Project Management: Body sized coolers

Prosperous Project Management

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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Body sized coolers

We need body-sized coolers for the booth at Wapping Community Church.

Every person laughs when I say that we need a "body - sized" cooler. This accurate description is the perfect example of a complete description in project managment. Nobody has said "how many cubic feet would that be?" or "What color should it be".

Instantly, every person on the team knows what I say when I talk of a "body sized cooler".

What adjectives are you using on your projects to perfectly and accurately describe your project requirements? What is a "body sized cooler" in your world?

Labels: Project SPUD

2 Comments:

At September 2, 2009 2:52 PM , Dr. Jim Anderson said...

Great post. One other thought is to start to use hours to indicate how much time a project has left instead of days.

Somehow knowing that you only have 72 hours left make you work harder than knowing that you have 3 days...

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At September 11, 2009 3:23 PM , Wayne Botha said...

Dr. Jim,

Thank you for the comment.

I agree that you are more focused when you realize that time is running out and compare it to the rate of work.

On a side note: I wonder why people purchase body-sized coolers? Who has a need for body sized coolers? I am not sure that I want to know too much about why people need body-sized coolers :)

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Wayne Botha is one of those rare people who can say he is a project manager, author and speaker and mean it. He is a past Area Governor for Toastmasters International and an enthusiastic Toastmaster. Wayne is a faculty member of Toastmasters Leadership Institute and has trained audiences in South Africa, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and the USA. With an MBA in eCommerce, and a PMP certification, Wayne is sought out to speak at Toastmasters and Project Management conferences. Wayne's colleagues and friends often tease him about his South African accent.