Gregory Ronczewski is the Director of Product Design at TeamFit – view his profile Have you ever wondered what your career would look like if—during this crucial meeting, a few years back—you said “yes” to the offer that...
Steven Forth is a Co-Founder of TeamFit. See his Skill Profile. Back in January, I had an interesting conversation with a product leader at one of the top people intelligence software companies. People intelligence (also known as people data and...
Gregory Ronczewski leads the design of the TeamFit platform – view his profile on TeamFit Google’s web crawler began exploring the web in March 1996. To convert the backlink data that it gathered for a given web page...
Many of us spend part of our careers as project managers. Learning how to manage a project and get the best out of our people is a foundational learning experience for many of us. It’s a time when we build core...
The previous post in this two-part series covered some of the considerations for the formation of cross-functional teams that are tasked with an initiative or a project. In this post, we will discuss challenges and opportunities in the ongoing...
As a product professional, I’ve had the opportunity over the years to be a member of or leader of cross functional teams. These teams tackled a wide array of issues, typically in project or time-bound committee formats. The matrix...
A high-performance team is often characterized as one that is aligned and committed to a common purpose. The people on the team have roles with complementary skills. Most importantly, they show high levels of collaboration and innovation to produce...
Faster project cycles More diverse teams Pressure to perform Professional services are evolving rapidly, and with it the tools and systems we use to deliver are changing as well. There has been no change in the fundamentals. It is...
It is hard to really know how skilled another person is. The only real way to do this is to work with them on a series of projects and follow the results of the work over time. Even then...
TeamFit is adding a new tool to its platform in June, project pulse. This is a simple way to ask people on a team how a project is going. Later on we will extend this so that people can...
We have been carrying out a simple one-question survey that asks the following question: “What categories do you use to organize your skills? Please pick the top five categories that you use to organize your skills. You may want...
We are doing a deep dive on how people are measuring project success. Before reading on, it would be great if you could take our short survey! Thank you. Predicting Project Success As we got out and talked to...
We only get better by measuring our performance. We all know this. Top athletes practice it. The best professionals take time for reflection. Business teams track KPIs. So why doesn’t our team building and project management software platforms do this?...
Most of us work on a lot of projects. Projects for customers, internal projects, side projects that engage our interests and help us to grow. Please take our little survey on What Skills Are Relevant in 2016? In the project,...
2015 was a year of change for many people. The impact of the contingent economy on professional services companies became a common theme, as was the need for these companies to become agile and make better use of the...
TeamFit provides economic value by making projects more successful. A lot of good things flow from project success. Stronger customer relationships are the most important and have the biggest long-term economic impact. With strong customer relationships come more repeat...
Smart business leaders are concerned with talent and the skills available to deliver on strategy. Smarter leaders want to have a skills gap. Why? Ask yourself why you might not have a skills gap. Your business is mature, you...
At TeamFit, we spend a lot of time talking to people who build teams, team managers, and team members. And we dig deep into how each of these people thinks about the skills they have and the skills of...
The default owner of data generated by human resources management systems of all kinds should be the individual. Not the company the individual works for. Not the platform through which the data is collected. Given today’s work practices, this...
HR professionals and project managers constantly seek the most effective way to understand and assess people’s skills. We are all under more and more economic pressure to be competitive. Companies are dependent on the skills of their people to...
High performance teams take risks. They take calculated risks, but real risks that can have bad outcomes. And consistently taking risks, and making sure that enough of those risks pay off, requires trust. When was the last time you...
Based on a conversation with Dan Ronald, VP Product Management at Optigo Networks It was a rare sunny spring day in Vancouver’s when I met with Dan Ronald in search of new insights into team performance. Dan is an experienced...
TeamFit is built around skills and project teams. Why? Because our skills are a very powerful way to describe who we are and what we are interests are. A list of my skills and where I have applied them...
Do you teams have the ability to bounce back? A lot can go wrong over the course of a project. There can be unexpected technology challenges, delays caused by change at the customer, people can leave teams for all...
Andre Kaminski has more than twenty-five years experience across project management, program management and product management. He works primarily on large and complex projects, generally involving software development and implementation, with all of the culture change issues that this...
“The P in PM is as much about ‘people management’ as it is about ‘project management’.” – Cornelius Fichtner Project managers must juggle multiple resources to implement projects. They operate under multiple constraints and uncertainties. People’s skills, attitudes and...
Over the past weeks, we have been conducting a number of open conversations as well as one on one conversations with several PMs. TeamFit is interested in understanding the challenges that PMs are currently facing, the roles that PMs...
In February we published a post and started a survey on the contingent economy. The contingent economy refers to the move by many companies to reduce dependence on full-time workers and to increase the use of contract workers. Many...