Short introduction of EI with definitions of its 4 components by the guy who “wrote the book on it”, Daniel Goleman.
Category: General Business Mgmt.
Mentoring
This 5′ minute TED talk – “The Power of Mentoring” – emphasizes long term benefits flowing from the role.
Tornado Diagram
Here is a 4′ introduction to two key constructs in quantitative risk analysis, namely sensitivity analysis and the tornado diagram. Useful slides, basic definitions.
Managing Conflict in Projects
The theme of this useful, results-oriented advice on resolving conflict in projects is “It’s your fault!” Worth a listen (although the format is talking heads and it includes a brief cm).
Tuckman Ladder
Here is a one-minute explanation of a useful, long-standing model of project team evolution – the Tuckman Ladder. This model is useful largely as a way to inform team members about “where they are” in a project, from an internal/team perspective, that is, a way that does not rely on scope, schedule, or budget frameworks. […]
Project Progress Tracking via EVM
Solid 18′ video offering a clear explanation via a worked example.
Intro to Risk Management
Very nice 11′ orientation via defintions of key constructs, a nice visual risk register, and a worked example. As the presenter indicates, the assumption here is a small to medium size project. That said, regardless of project scale, the basic constructs here are relevant and useful.
Goals vs. KPI’s
Good short explanation of the difference.
Payback Period
Here’s a nice 3 minute explanation of “payback period”. It includes some context and a useful worked example. Organizations typically have more ideas about projects they might like to do than resources to do them all. So, to decide which one(s) to actually initiate, they typically compare candidate projects in terms of business case and […]
Modeling Context of Product Use
Nice (8 minute) presentation on researching context of use. Discusses identifying end-users, modeling their contexts and purposes, the design challenge of serving them, and generating ideas about features and affordances of potential project products.