http://www.talentontarget.com/index.php/2009/03/comparing-observed-behavior-to-project-management-actuals/ Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:16:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.talentontarget.com/index.php/2009/03/comparing-observed-behavior-to-project-management-actuals/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Alec Satin - Making Project Management Better Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:44:54 +0000 http://www.tenrox.com/blogs/talentontarget/?p=31#comment-3 Most interesting to me is how accurate the results were. Nice work to the R&D PMs at having 100% accuracy. Meeting time in your study exceeds reported time in all cases. A perhaps organization changing follow-up study might be to look at meetings against standard criteria such as * agenda present * meeting discussion matching agenda * appointed notetaker * action items assigned to one person and with due dates. Thanks for the quality read! Alec Satin, PMP Most interesting to me is how accurate the results were. Nice work to the R&D PMs at having 100% accuracy.
Meeting time in your study exceeds reported time in all cases. A perhaps organization changing follow-up study might be to look at meetings against standard criteria such as
* agenda present
* meeting discussion matching agenda
* appointed notetaker
* action items assigned to one person and with due dates.
Thanks for the quality read!
Alec Satin, PMP

]]> http://www.talentontarget.com/index.php/2009/03/comparing-observed-behavior-to-project-management-actuals/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Marty Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:27:32 +0000 http://www.tenrox.com/blogs/talentontarget/?p=31#comment-4 Detailed report and interesting conclusions. Time sheet reporting can very accurately reflect evident efforts for certain positions where physical, observable work comprises the majority of their role - e.g. support, sales, etc. But to try and push for a marriage of observed work with accurate reporting from executives or from team members in R&D or marketing could be tricky. Often what they appear to be doing may be very different from what they are doing. Is the employee staring off into space daydreaming, or is he working out a critical approach to a problem? In a similar vein, while these "strategy role" employees are having a smoke-break, or driving home, or sitting at dinner with their families, they may still be (and likely are) mentally putting in time on work-related challenges. In these cases, what is observed will never mesh with what is being done. Detailed report and interesting conclusions. Time sheet reporting can very accurately reflect evident efforts for certain positions where physical, observable work comprises the majority of their role – e.g. support, sales, etc. But to try and push for a marriage of observed work with accurate reporting from executives or from team members in R&D or marketing could be tricky. Often what they appear to be doing may be very different from what they are doing. Is the employee staring off into space daydreaming, or is he working out a critical approach to a problem? In a similar vein, while these “strategy role” employees are having a smoke-break, or driving home, or sitting at dinner with their families, they may still be (and likely are) mentally putting in time on work-related challenges. In these cases, what is observed will never mesh with what is being done.

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