Comments on: Improving Knowledge in Projects

By: mohan.d

mohan.d — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:41:12 +0000

i wish to your comment.this is very useful to me because i dont know any project detail but now i want more detail in project.

so if u have any free time free send your advice to my email id.

thanking you

mohan.d

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[...] a paper entitled â€œImproving Knowledge in Projects,â€ Eric D. Brown speaks to consulting with Information Technology clients to align technology, [...]

By: Craig Brown

Craig Brown — Sun, 11 May 2008 10:48:00 +0000

Hey Eric
Great post. Thanks for sharing.

Craig

By: Eric D. Brown

Eric D. Brown — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:51:58 +0000

Thanks! I appreciate the comment and compliment!

By: Raven

Raven — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:47:14 +0000

Eric – more good stuff from “the intellectual PM”, a phrase I coined just for you! You’re writing is always top notch and really makes me think.

Thanks for sharing more excellent insights!

By: Eric D. Brown

Eric D. Brown — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:49:14 +0000

Will – Thanks for the comment.

Perfect example of knowledge sharing/transfer gone wrong in projects!

By: Will Pearce

Will Pearce — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:36:20 +0000

This reminds me of a meeting that I held with two programmers during my long-ago tech documentation days. The purpose of the meeting was to clarify some points about the functioning of a particular piece of software that was being developed by our company. Both of the programmers were involved in the project and related to the specific areas I had questions about (their areas of responsibility were separate but interdependent).

As the conversation progressed, it became apparent to me that I was getting contradictory answers. I pointed this out to the two programmers, being very specific in my analysis as to why they both could not be right. After I finished, the two looked at each other, looked at me, then excused themselves to go fix a problem they had caused but were totally unaware of–because they had never had any “boundary consistency” conversation between themselves.

It’s sort of like the NASA Mars probe that crashed because one team programmed in metric and another programmed in English units, only we found our error before going “splat!”