{"id":454,"date":"2010-05-31T01:38:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T06:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=454"},"modified":"2010-05-29T17:03:15","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T22:03:15","slug":"they-will-still-try-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2010\/05\/they-will-still-try-it\/","title":{"rendered":"They Will Still Try It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project managers have various goals. Here is one to consider: the people who work on your project are willing to work on another one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Working on a project can be tough. The requirements change, if there are any requirements. The schedule shrinks, if there is a schedule. Weekends &#8211; what are weekends? &#8211; are spent in the office to meet the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>Who wants to work on a project? What&#8217;s more, who wants to work on a project after having survived one?<\/p>\n<p>This is one measure of a project manager &#8211; the people who worked on a project you managed are willing to work another project. You didn&#8217;t ruin them.<\/p>\n<p>This basic measure extends to many endeavors.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Writers<\/strong> &#8211; the reader of your book is willing to read another book after reading yours.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Programmers<\/strong> &#8211; the user of your program is willing to use another program after using yours.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Furniture maker<\/strong> &#8211; the person who sat in a chair you made is willing to sit in another chair after sitting in yours.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Parent<\/strong> &#8211; the children you raised became fine people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I could go on with examples. Simple to do? Perhaps not. I have seen examples of the opposite: people swear never to work on another project again, swear never to read a book again, swear never to use software again, swear never to speak to their parents again.<\/p>\n<p>Doing something doesn&#8217;t have to inspire people to great heights. A simpler goal is to have people willing to try something again. A simpler goal is to not ruin someone in some way. Allow people to see that managing\u00a0 a project, writing a book, and raising kids is not as easy as it might appear. Allow them to see that you tried.<\/p>\n<p>What is most important, allow them to see that what you cared about most is them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Project managers have various goals. Here is one to consider: the people who work on your project are willing to work on another one. Working on a project can be tough. The requirements change, if there are any requirements. The schedule shrinks, if there is a schedule. Weekends &#8211; what are weekends? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,9],"tags":[177,132],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-management","tag-family","tag-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}