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– Being prepared at what you do can be the difference between success and failure when things go wrong
– Your king is your own customers. If you care for them, they will care for your project. Anticipate their needs, desires, wants and fulfill them with an unbiased mind.
– Understand and respect the scope, ownerships and accountabilities of the project you work on.
– Be subtle and diplomatic. You can only learn when you listen. But always be prepared to answer and follow up.
– Share efforts with other people in the project by offering free help, as that will come back as an investement.
– Focus on key elements of a production which are the least organized or efficient.
– Validate and qualify your resources before taking on a plan.
– Invest into a plan only if you are sure it can be completed successfully.
– Value a project’s requirements and its users’ experience before the technology development itself.
– Motivate your teams by the gains in specific production investments.
– Organize tasks and teams based on their strenghts and self efficiency.
– Analyze the project’s requirements and resources. Then prioritize them accordingly.
– Observe and resolve bottlenecks, opportunities and users’ needs
– Detail a plan B as soon as you striclty commit to a detailed plan A.
– Dedicate some time and small teams to research efficient alternatives.
– Build only and always on top of stable and known cycles.
– Focus on the big items if they can resolve a lot of small ones.
– If something worked before is still worth to think out of the box.
– Combine all your team strengths into a unified collaborative effort.