Key takeaways
- Leaders rushing for profit skip the systems, strategies and structures that hold a business up.
- The hardest part of estimating is the timeline; plan to finish a week early and account for events outside your control.
- Assign people tasks they like and are suited to, and know what is going on in their lives, or the work slows down.
- A plan should show the full vision first, then budgets, timelines, roles and goals; break large projects into blocks and staff each one.
- When time is short, write the to-do list, clear your calendar for the estimating work, and keep communication open when plans change.
About this episode
Creating estimates and plans can be tough, especially if you don’t have the time to do them well. But, if you’re working on a team, you should leverage them. In this episode of Time Limit, Brett interviews best selling author, international speaker and CEO of Priceless Planning, Dr. Sidjae Price, about ways to get to well-rounded estimates and plans with teams. But it’s more than that. In fact, this conversation covers:
- Dealing with generational gaps while managing projects
- Taking human factors and cultural norms into consideration when estimating and planning
- Tips on creating a solid planning process
- Handling change
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