Friday, October 22, 2010

4 Days Till Period And Ewcm

A leadership fable about



In this post I share with you, dear readers, a story that came to my e-box mail referred to our role as leaders. I fully share his moral, so I leave it here for your consideration:


The Fable of the Pastor and Project Leader
by Rodrigo Corral on February 10, 2009.

Myth or Reality?

strolled one day a project leader on the field after years of being glued to the monitor.
I was thinking how extraordinary scenery, the peace that was felt and how far it was now meeting kick off "when he saw a shepherd with a small herd. No more than fifty resources were the pastor managed.
At that precise moment, the modest shepherd saw the leader and took a swig from his bottle of mezcal. The minister raised his head, looked at our project leader and offered a drink. The leader took the bottle, gave him a drink that tasted pretty strong and sat next to the pastor. And you know, a good mezcal can have hallucinogenic effects. Especially if you have not tried in years ... and not leaving the nearest supermarket.
So intoxicated by the taste, the project leader could not help saying, "Mr. Shepherd, what he really is life." The pastor looked at him without saying anything. "The whole day devoted to yourself, with your faithful resources never oppose their will, they know what to do without anyone to tell them, they are not calling all day and thinking it's time to go home. What would I be in his position ... "continued the chief.
The pastor looked at him and with the simplicity that gives only true wisdom said, "you do not know what he's talking, buddy." And he threw a long swig from the bottle. The project manager would not be intimidated, so I replied: "You will if you do not know anything about how hard it is my job, sure I take better care of his sheep, you my team of developers." The pastor looked at him and said "done, type address here of your company and I'll tell. "
He handed the bottle to the project leader, in a gesture that clearly said that if he drank, the deal was closed. And of course, the leader drank as I thought, "who the hell, here you have the certificates I am."
The shepherd whistled to his dog and said, "within a week back, while, due to the head. ... He gave
the mat and went to meet his new flock. The project leader thought, "Well this is managing resources is not it? I've been doing this for years. Sheep sure they do a better job than the developers. I have a clear goal, to give wool, and only I need to create a plan and demand its fulfillment. " With a good plan and an iron hand, certainly could meet its objectives.
leader breathed again when he remembered he was wearing his PDA and Project and Excel were super mini version. Everything was fixed. He spent that night with a plan. Everything was under control, he had "the plan", 50 sheep resource type, 50 kilos of wool per resource, 2.500 kilos of wool. Certainly a profitable project ...
The next day brought to the flock. "I have a plan that will lead us to complete the project successfully. I have already committed to the mayor and wool merchant to deliver 2500 kilos of the finest wool in the within two months. The mayor has shown me their full confidence in me in front, expert resource manager, the project will be a success. "Sheep do not understand anything. They knew that the mayor used to worry more for milk than wool, but maybe things have changed, who knew them, "mere wool-producing resources? Milk? ... Sheep, no wool had never produced so much in so little time, but with a good manager in charge may be the miracle works.
spent twenty days, and the project leader met again the sheep. "Dear sheep, we are late in my plan. No doubt they will do what is necessary to ensure production fast enough. I have spoken with the mayor and told him not to worry, that will increase our efforts cattle and lost time. " The sheep did not understand and concluded that the leader was not a very smart animal. At the end of the day did not know how to make wool grow faster ... and it looked like it either.
Another twenty days later, the project leader brought back to the fold. "Damn sheep. I asked an effort and have done nothing. I made the plan and you are doing to fail. If not applied, they will go to the * @ # & street. And you know, the crisis we have ... I can find fifty as you. " The sheep, once again, did not understand anything. And was told the project manager who did not get in the corral at night, and that change of field was not good for their wool. They had thought that maybe if they moved down the field, as they did with the pastor, improve wool production. They also suggested that the chief orders, knew that the mayor always wanted to milk ... "These sheep, always complaining of nonsense, I knew they were not very different from the developers. Follow the plan and stop complaining and think, for that I am. There is no way to make them work! "Had thought the project manager. Twenty
days later, the mayor came and asked the boss for their wool ... the head was only 1.000 kilos, the sheep were not as skilled as put on your resume, unacceptable ... I could have done it ... "No problem boss," the mayor, "we will have plenty of milk then." The head turned red and said "milk? if the contract said nothing of milk ... The mayor said, "No matter what you tell me the contract, the milk is taken for granted, the project will fail, you will not see a * @ # & weight ... ".
In that came the pastor ... I'm sure he too was wrong ... "What this pastor? "Hard work?" He said sarcastically. The pastor replied, with its natural simplicity: "Everything has gone smoothly. After the developers are like sheep, right? Surely you too have done well. Developers even have given me a GPS to mark where my sheep eat better ... and where there are mushrooms! I think I have grown fond of. "
The leader could not get over his astonishment. Resources were started and everything. Tell me you did! said the pastor.
"It was easy, the developers are much more communicative than sheep and costs less to reunite. Also, I thought, are not very different than sheep, are individualistic and gregarious at the same time. Sure if I care about them as I do with my sheep, I'll get the expected results and why I've dedicated this week. "
"I asked if they got a 64-bit server I do not know what evidence of performance and compatibility. I had no idea what that was, but it seemed important to them, so I got it. Do not look for the best grass for my sheep? Not so different ... "The project manager was stunned, since when does some of the resources by their whims? ...
" One day, the developers said that the performance could not be adequate, it was best to ask an expert said. So I did, I sought an expert to help them and they formed. Do not take my sheep to the vet when they have problems? ". Now that the project leader could not believe it, training resources is expensive! And then they go to the competition as you know.
"Another day I was told that the developers failed to move forward. That worried me. Is it supposed that developers must move forward in functionality, is its wool and milk, right? The problem is that sales were continually demanding minor changes, visits to clients, taking calls, it seems that the wolves lurk, I thought. So I put a some order and I made it clear that my herd is not disturbed. "
The minister concluded: "The truth is that I have not done much right?. Developers are like sheep, if you let them do their job and put the conditions for doing so in the end you can collect the results. "
In that awakened the project leader and thought, "Wow, how the pastor paste the mezcal, go nap and go weird dream," while the pastor looked lost on the horizon with his flock.
already said DeMarco and Lister in Peopleware: "the work of project manager is not to make people work, but to build the environment in which work is possible."



About the Author Mr. Rodrigo Corral, MCAD, MCPD. More than 12 years developing software, freelance and several companies like Sisteplant is technical lead on projects carried out on the platform. NET (C # 3.0 and ASP.NET). Groups responsible for development and analyst-programmer at Panda Software. Founding partner of PlainConcetps where he serves as software architect and mentor in various areas such as project management, Scrum, Team System, software patterns, configuration management, distributed architecture design, implementation and development of Sharepoint, design and optimization SQL Server.
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Buying Shock Absorber Seat For Boat

Changes in the PMP certification exam

In line with a new version of the document "Role delineation Study (RDS), PMI announced changes to the PMP certification exam from 31/08/2011.

Basically, announce 2 major issues:

a) .- The 30% of the questions on the basis of examinations will be changed.
b) .- disappears as an independent domain "Social and Professional Responsibility" and all questions relating to the Code of Ethics will be incorporated into the respective remaining 5 domains, changing the proportion of questions each.

not expected to change in the conditions of applicability.

current credential holders we will not be affected immediate and do not change the PDU's that have already earned. If there is any change, notify PMI expected before year end.

starting to read can learn here:

http://www.pmi.org/Certification/Project-Management-Professional-PMP/Updates-to-PMP-Certification-Exam.aspx

observation seems best practices, combined with the study of dummy questions have borne fruit. Anyway, PMI makes it clear that such changes occur in periods of 5 to 7 years and always alert to 11 months prior to the time of crystallization of the same.

Of course, this does not affect the PMBOK 4th. Edition or its application the test. It is a separate issue entirely. Nothing to do with obligafo change that will come from the edition of the PMBOK 5 ... Whoever has thought

apply and pay before the D-Day, of course, is not affected by any change.

What do you think?
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