Today is my first time to join ACS Project Management Special Interest Group Meeting.

There were three people speaking for total 90 minutes and they were talking about the same perspective, Project Management Methodologies and PMP Certifications.

Well, I don’t want to be to be on another side of the equation. However, one guest said his opinion and he was right. Communication skills set.

We often, well, and they too, relying to much to the methodology paper and contract. We think that having completed the tracks based on the paper is always what we rely on to finish the project. Yes, for some certain extent this is true to keep the customer stop asking for more. However, this will end the project with personal dissatisfaction. Yes, the Project manager do the job but that’s it! No more discussion and good bye! We don’t want to see you again as you don’t want to listen!

Communication matters most. What can you get on the contract without communication, what can you get on the requirement without communication. Do you think you want to get the job as soon as possible and get rid of the customer face from your side? So, you don’t want the customer to hire you back? Or you think that the customer will get you back as you’re on the best consultant company and they have no choice?

We don’t need Project Manager that relies on their certification and experience only. Well, the job is getting tougher. It is now required by Project Managers to equip with communication skill sets. Project Manager that can stand on the side on the customer by listening.

The advantages, easy, Project Manager with good communication skills will easily get recommendation, time extention, or budget adjustment.

So, now the Project Managers should go to John Robert Power or Dale Carnegie communication course.

“The art of communication is to listen” – Unknown.

I’ve been having difficulties to make use of internet connection using ad-hoc wireless hardware. No, This is not the common access point. I’ve been expecting to make use of internet from a internet-connected desktop PC on my Uni Lab using USB Wireless.

I’m thinking that I would have a wireless USB that I can easily plug into USB port and voila, It turns the wireless USB into and internet gateway that I can easily make use my own laptop or PDA for internet purpose.

I read this article and I think that is an advanced technology that will kill or replace the limitation of Bluetooth. Imagine, wireless connection with Ethernet speed, all over the house, including your Camcorder, TV, Cellphone, and I hope kitchen. Yes, kitchen, or perhaps I should say that it is should be made modular so that any devices that have compliant requirement will be able to make use of this feature, Home Security devices for example.

Back to what I want, the requirement is actually quite simple. I just need to have my notebook and Wireless USB that is loaded with gateway-like firmware that will make any existing internet-connected computer as a bridge using this Wireless USB with no hassle.

Profoundly, this Wireless USB will be equipped with Phone-line port and Ethernet port. Well, yes, It’s a bit complicated now. But I think the first thing to do when I get this stuff will be doing the configuration, save it, and later I can just plug it into Phone/Ethernet/USB connector.

One thing that employer should know that it is not really easy to replace an employee. Especially when he/she taking an important role to the company. Yes, those words are obvious and everybody knows that. So, what the employer usually do to make a good replacement?. Well, usually the junior will have to sit several hours to work with the-wanna-leave-employee to teach the junior few things to work on the company.

This kind of example is actually trying to mention that Tacit Knowledge (TK) is transferable to a certain extend. At least, if we agree that the above paragraph is similar with TK. The knowledge that Mr. J has probably is common knowledge he get from somewhere else that has only inform Mr. J to act as it is written in company procedure.

One thing to have in mind that employee is not a robot that act based on written procedure or we may called Explicit Knowledge (EK). There are other lots of things to teach or transfer to Mr. J to done the work and do the replacement smoothly and unfortunately, this can’t be done by giving Mr. J a set of company SOP and Code of Conduct.

Kind a stupid expectation to see Mr. J as Mr. Bright-who-knows-everything and let him to run the job. No way mister! Those expectation is wrong. Even when you do your aw esome assessment to Mrs. Carly Fiona. I bet it was a very good assessment with some flying colors that makes you hire her. Well, that do you get? You get somebody that is not running in the same lane with your ideas but you did expect her to be one. Well, I think somebody should tell her which lane she should stays.