I think sometimes we get caught up in titles and skill sets and we forget to see the person behind all of that. I know I’ve been guilty of that before. So many times I’ve thought – “that person is a tech lead, they can’t do this or they won’t want to.” Or, “a business analyst isn’t going to be able to help with coding issues when we’re heavily into the development stage.” Or many other similar thoughts. You get the picture. I’ve had a one track mind…I’ve had blinders on. I’ve not been thinking outside the box at times when I should have been thinking that way. Let’s see, are there any other clichés that I can run into the ground in this opening paragraph?
At any rate, the project resources that we – as project managers – are leading on a daily basis and who’s tasks we are overseeing in the web-based project management software schedule are often creative individuals with entrepreneurial minds and they aren’t looking to do what they are currently doing for the rest of their days. And that provides us with an opportunity when a need arises on our project for someone to perform a task or series of tasks that we don’t currently have the ‘exact right’ skills for on the project.
At any rate, the project resources that we – as project managers – are leading on a daily basis and who’s tasks we are overseeing in the web-based project management software schedule are often creative individuals with entrepreneurial minds and they aren’t looking to do what they are currently doing for the rest of their days. And that provides us with an opportunity when a need arises on our project for someone to perform a task or series of tasks that we don’t currently have the ‘exact right’ skills for on the project.
