One of the pleasures of having your children grow up is seeing that you didn’t ruin them after all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
One of the pleasures of managing a project is seeing that you didn’t ruin the other people on the project.<\/p>\n
They still want to work on projects.<\/p>\n
Some of them even want to work on projects with you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I once worked in an office that prided itself on what it called “target teams.” Never mind the context; to be on a target team was some sort of honor (at least that is what upper managers wanted people to think). I met many people in that office who had worked on a target team and swore they would never be on one again.<\/p>\n
The manager of that target team project flunked the above corollary.<\/p>\n
I have had the pleasure of meeting people who worked with me on projects five, ten, and twenty years earlier. They told me they would love to work together again.<\/p>\n
That phrase – love to work together again – is priceless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
by Dwayne Phillips There are many pleasures that come with managing a project. One is learning that you didn’t ruin the people who worked with you. Author and consultant Jerry Weinberg once wrote: One of the pleasures of having your children grow up is seeing that you didn’t ruin them after all. My corollary of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,85],"tags":[132,202],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-management","category-success","tag-management","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","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=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}