Project Team Zen – Part III

By Mathias HellquistPublished: November 24, 2009 at 11:00 Tags: #projectmanagement, #teammanagement, #teamwork

This is the third article in a series covering the topic of Project Team Composition, hence the incredibly cunning name of it. So we have now established people in our Dream Team should have complementary skills of a similar level. We have also established people in our Newbie Team should have complementary skills of a similar level, mainly because it really doesn't matter what level you put the team on, it needs to be of a similar level if you are striving towards Project Team...

Project Team Zen – Part II

By Mathias HellquistPublished: November 12, 2009 at 09:00 Tags: #projectmanagement, #teammanagement, #teamwork

Scapegoat by h.koppdelaney

This is the second article in a series about Project Team Composition. You can find links to the related articles in the series index above.In the last article I said there are a few things a good well-oiled constantly habitually repetetive winning teams need to have:

Complementary skills, and knowing and trusting the others will do their part
Approximately the same skill level
Striving for similar goals
Mutual respect for each other, and for each others skills

Lets start going through that list in more detail, and today I...

Project-Team Zen – Part I

By Mathias HellquistPublished: November 11, 2009 at 08:59 Tags: #projectmanagement, #teammanagement, #teamwork

The Fed Ex Forum Awaiting the New Season

Arena

The concept of team work, and project teams, is an interesting one, particularly as there can be more combinations of teams than there are people. As this will be a series of posts on the topic I shall start this one with laying the foundation for some of the reasoning later.I ended my old article, Excellence - Teamwork or flying Solo, with the following statement:

Point being, if you have a well-oiled team, who knows each other and each others skills, and...

How to write a blog post – Part II

By Mathias HellquistPublished: November 8, 2009 at 23:41 Tags: #blog, #blogging, #writingonline

Time to save the world

This is the second part of my instructional blog post about...errr...blog posts. You can find the first one over here: How to write a blog post, and just to re-cap: this is mainly for the guys (friends and colleagues) that I have recently installed Wordpress blogs for, and who maybe not are entirely used to writing for an online audience. If this is not you, and you don't have...

How to write a blog post

By Mathias HellquistPublished: November 4, 2009 at 09:00 Tags: #blog, #blogging, #writingonline

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts

I have recently been setting up several different self-hosted Wordpress blogs, covering many different topic matters. All those blogs are being maintained and content edited by people who are not me, and I have noticed that several of those the content editors do not have much experience in writing for online audiences. That is ok. No one has experience until they've done it.However, there are a couple of quick wins one can do for the...

Back To The Future Of The Web

In April 2008 I wrote a blog post called FW: A question on what the ‘future web will resemble’ where I was trying to predict (well, give my view…) how I saw the web would pan out in the near future.
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