Personal Website for David M Proett, PMP
In India the traffic on the roads is chaotic. There are cars, trucks, pedestrian, bicycles, motor cycles, and yes, cows, and even ox pulls carts. And horns blowing constantly. And, by the way, they drive on the opposite side of the Read More …
A few years ago, I went to Chennai, India to help a third-party company with testing and asset their change management capabilities. It was an amazing experience. Being throw into a culture so radically different from what we know in Read More …
I have a reputation for being able to put anything together from chairs, to bicycles, to beds. My reputation was put to test a few years ago when I purchased the greenhouse from Brighton Greenhouse. It came with literally a Read More …
Several years ago, I had a team member from the Vietnam, offer an expense neck tie to me as a Christmas give. It was hard to explain to him that I couldn’t accept sure a beautiful nick tie. I had Read More …
One of my team member, who happen to be from Sri Lanka, asked me one morning if he could meet privately with me. Sure, I said. The individual had only been in San Francisco for about a month and he Read More …
In a matrix environment, a project manager has to build trust and respect for each team member. Not that it is motivating anyway, but you cannot force people to work hard and do a good job, they have to want Read More …
PMI states that 90% of a project manager job is communication. I agree, and long before it was popular, I managed by walking around. Sure, I have always had the weekly status meetings, etc., but I always learned a lot Read More …