Since I’m writing this Project Restart report from a certain distance, I’ll mention here the things that really stuck in my memory. If you prefer a video format, check out the following report, where some of the following information is also included.
Tip: Another report from the event was prepared by Freelo , which organized the entire conference together with Taste. You can also read what caught Michael Koch’s attention in Digichef magazine .
Martin Hausenblas – Strategic Project Management
I trust tips and advice from people who have achieved chinese overseas british database something much more. Martin Hausenblas belongs to this group. He had several interesting points in his lecture that I will remember. I will mention two.
How to solve problems? When something is not working, the easiest thing to do is to add effort. After some time, you need to evaluate it and in the second phase, change the strategy if necessary. This eliminates two approaches that I encounter quite often. One group just adds and subtracts effort endlessly. And the other group keeps changing the strategy, but doesn’t really go any further. Neither of them works.
The second point concerns recruiting people. First, several speakers at the conference said that it is necessary for the company or founder to have a pool effect – people simply want to work in this company with these people under these conditions. The second point was that Martin talked about money as the first thing he addresses during interviews. When there is agreement, he only moves on. It is often the other way around.
Be the kind of person people want to work for. But for you personally. Am I the kind of person people want to work for?
Martin Hausenblas
Petr Bernadič – How to communicate a project for which the customer is happy to pay the invoice
This part dealt with an important topic, which is building a relationship with a client. A large part of it concerned how to maintain or increase enthusiasm for cooperation during the process. It often happens that cooperation is concluded and then, for various reasons, enthusiasm and trust on both sides decline.
The key, of course, is communication.
First, set realistic expectations that are achievable and especially in subsequent years commercially beneficial for the client. Then, don’t forget to properly communicate all your successes to the client. Great work without communication is only half the battle.
The client doesn’t want to pay an invoice for the work being done. They want to pay for the fact that it brought them something and was worth it.
Petr Bernadic
Michal Musil – Psychology of Negotiation or How to Prepare and Succeed in Negotiation
Michal talked about negotiation and how much different the life of a person who knows how to negotiate can be. An example of such a question: What can I do to get a discount?
And finally, a quote emphasizing building a relationship and only then moving towards negotiation.
The goal of negotiation is to build a relationship, understand the goals and needs of the other party, and then negotiate.
Chris Voss
Michael Koch – A project called a meeting
Meetings are an important part of many professions, yet many people don’t think about them, don’t evaluate them. They just go through them. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t.
Michael is one of the top people I’ve had the opportunity to meet at meetings at Tast. Yet he always analyzes the meeting. What went well, what didn’t go well, what we could have done better.
You can have very different preparation for a meeting. But thailand data have some. And I don’t mean in the professional sense. It is also important to set yourself up internally, to come with a good mood, relaxed, authentic and also with a certain scenario for the meeting. What will be the result?
Michael mentioned things like visualizing the spaces you’re going to, breathing, warming up your body and hands. There’s a lot to it, but the first step is to start thinking about the meeting as a project you can work on!