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Lead Projects from a Point of Strength
Dottie Love, DTM
• Control: How you track, review, I have found team member alignment
and regulate the progress and occurs when the tools help motivate the teams
performance. to perform better. The scope, WBS, and
• Close: Activities across all Core milestones can be used to further build out a
Processes are formally closed. project management plan. Your communication
• Activities – key plans and deliverables for plan outlines how you keep everyone informed.
each phase. Mitigating risks reduce adverse project impacts.
The illustration (Fig 1) shows how a Then you can confirm costs, measurements of
Methodology effects projects. success, and the people needed to do the work.
Doing It Better Promoting It Better
The better you plan; the better your team will Planning is key to developing a roadmap that
achieve. During the Planning Phase, everyone everyone will follow. Begin with setting goals
involved knows what they are accountable for. that are S.M.A.R.T. and C.L.E.A.R.
Your role as the Project Leader is to ensure S.M.A.R.T goals are Specific, Measureable,
key deliverables are generated to help lay the Attainable, Realistic and Timely. S.M.A.R.T.
foundation for success to track and measure starts with answering: who, what, where, when,
against. I recommend organizing workshops which, and why to do it. And helps to ensure the
or working sessions, to have the team create goals have been thoroughly vetted. PROCESS
and/or formalize their understanding of the FOCUSED
Activities. Based on what you need to strengthen C.L.E.A.R goals are Collaborative, Limited,
the team, conduct sessions throughout the Phases Emotional, Appreciable, and Refine-able.
to generate deliverables/ tools noted in “HOW C.L.E.A.R. is a newer way to set goals that
TO GET IT” (Fig 2) encourage teams and tap into the passion of the
people working in agile, fast-paced
environments. PEOPLE FOCUSED
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Figure 2
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