TravisDBA (11/28/2011)
WolforthJ (11/28/2011)
The chart went up in the break room, so everyone saw it when a project was behind and knew which team caused it. After a while we didn't need the chart.Personally, I'm not a big fan of this kind of public display to get a point across, because it destroys team building and tends to promote a pay-back atmosphere (us vs. them) in the department. I think there are other more tactful ways to deal with this, even if it did turn out to be effective. You can motivate people in other positive ways than mounting signs in the break room for EVERYONE to see (including the janitors and vending machine operators) IMHO.:-D
I agree. This was a pretty dysfunctional company. But in this case, it inspired the department that had to order stock to start using an actual project management tool. Exactly what we wanted them to do, and had been suggested, but when it became their idea they were more enthusiastic about it and other departments adopted it. Eventually most departments were included, except IT, which was listed, but never had any time assigned to it. So, if you looked at their GANTT chart apparently we were doing our job in zero time.
Anyway, the guy who put up the chart was eventually fired because of his anger issues and the director was promoted just because. She was diagnosed with Alzheimers not too long after that. Stranger than fiction.