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Like football, project delivery is a team effort. I tend to think like an owner - the big picture - success for the organization, the whole team. When you zoom out, it's obvious you '''need''' to rely on specialists to get certain skills and functions that comprise the project. Working successfully with all the 'players' in the organization - from finance and administration to engineering and development to sales and marketing - is the key to delivering on projects again and again. | Like football, project delivery is a team effort. I tend to think like an owner - the big picture - success for the organization, the whole team. When you zoom out, it's obvious you '''need''' to rely on specialists to get certain skills and functions that comprise the project. Working successfully with all the 'players' in the organization - from finance and administration to engineering and development to sales and marketing - is the key to delivering on projects again and again. | ||
As a project leader, you need to partition the project into milestones, phases, and/or types of activity. This is similar to how building a house has many trades that must be coordinated and phased. | As a project leader, you need to partition the project into milestones, phases, and/or types of activity. This is similar to how [[Special:BookSources/9780618001910|building a house]] has many trades that must be coordinated and phased. | ||
Some aspects - like testing, quality control, customer acceptance are cross-cutting processes that need to happen for each item. | Some aspects - like testing, quality control, customer acceptance are cross-cutting processes that need to happen for each item. | ||