Laboratory Informatics Projects Depend on People
Written by Gloria Metrick on . Published as written. It may not reflect how these systems work today.
The newsletter went out, yesterday, and those who received it know the topic was “Emotions in the Sales Process.” (for a free subscription: http://www.geometrick.com/newsltr_signup.htm ).
I seem to think I’d posted a few blog postings regarding the issue of people in projects and that’s certainly a topic coming up in the newsletter in the following months. When I speak and write about project failure, I mention “politics” as a main contributor. I get enough responses from both readers and audience members to thing they’re seeing that, too. “Politics” is definitely a people issue.
And even the problems we have where people aren’t trained or cooperating, which are also common – even these common problems are people issues. While we search for the next, great tool – the one that will finally make the project a success, we ignore the elephants in the room – the people. They’re an issue not so easily sorted-out and some projects make no attempt to address them.
These are the hard issues of project management and the difference between the best projects and project managers, and those that aren’t really that good.
Gloria Metrick
GeoMetrick Enterprises
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