Advice to Workcube Project Managers

Digital Transformation is often perceived as IT. However, approaching it only as a technological concept leads us to illusion. In order to better understand this phenomenon, we can ask the question: What do we need for Digital Transformation?

A hardware infrastructure consisting of personal computers, network equipment, and servers and the software running on this hardware (Operating Systems, Databases, Application Servers, Web Servers, Communication software, Business software, etc.) These two can be called the nervous system of the enterprise. This is the mind that will command the nervous system and the muscle power that nerves activate.

We can compare the business to the human being, the most perfect living organism. Human nature is complex. Most of the time, it is unsuccessful to mold it, to standardize it. Not only are the physical characteristics of each person exactly the same, but also the transcendental characteristics that determine their behavior and abilities are different. Businesses are like people. They have characters that make them unique. Moreover, businesses cannot exist without people. So, if we can compare the business to a human, this metaphor can give us practical benefits during project management.

You must demonstrate a human-oriented and human-valued business approach!
Technology exists to make human life easier. Today, technology, especially information technologies, is exaggerated and a technology fetishism is formed. The myth of products produced in machines that are untouched by human hands is interpreted as business processes that operate without human touch. A human hand may not touch it, but it is certain that the mind must. There are many disciplines in management sciences. In these disciplines, although there are approaches that contain mathematical precision, there are also multi-solution truths that contain multi-fringe logics. We come across many concepts and phenomena that are sometimes in the ambiguous fields of social sciences, sometimes in behavioral sciences or psychology. What is true for one business may not be true for another. In this respect, humanizing the business while managing the project will provide benefits as a methodology.

Be open to listening and understanding!
Misunderstandings cause you to do wrong things. The way to understand starts with listening. Try to grasp the essence, the spirit of what your interlocutors in the project are talking about.

Based on note-taking and written communication!
Whether recording with video or audio, or in writing. Be sure to take notes. Moreover, make sure to archive your notes on Workcube Project Management. One day, those notes will be useful to you and increase your performance.

Keep your word so that your word will be heard!
Don't keep promises you can't keep. When you make a promise, keep it. Always give deadlines prudently. If there is any problem, call him before the person in question calls you and share the situation openly...

Apply the rule "The master is the person who makes them do it not the one who does it by themselves"
Many talented people have a "delegation" disease. More important than doing the work yourself is to have the people who will use Workcube do it at the end of the project. Key users who will take part in the implementation of Workcube projects must be determined, and if you have not yet received a written commitment from them that they will support the project, you should definitely get a commitment and have them signed. If they are not working and they are avoiding work, warn them 3 times at the most. Otherwise, the entire responsibility of the project falls on you. You get very tired, you can't tell your troubles to anyone and you get the stamp of failure.

Only optimists can change the course of history!
If you are not an optimistic and positive person, immediately ask for forgiveness from the project. Because the project you are in can be a project that people will talk about a lot. Especially those who do not intend to do business, do not want change, do not want an objective and measurable business. Instead of making them more hostile to the project, you should win them over.
If you say how can I win, you can develop a management type by thinking that the person in front of you is human.

Don't design a perfect business! Imagine a business that gets better every day!
Remember the famous saying "perfect is the enemy of good". Pay more attention to large and small improvement activities. Learn, do, improve. Isn't that what development and change is anyway? However, take a look at your strategic roadmap from time to time...

When setting up your technology infrastructure, be neither stingy nor wasteful.
Servers, backup tools, network equipment, connection widths... If you are stingy while buying the infrastructure on which Workcube will run, know that if you have a problem one day, you can have an unpleasant dialogue with your boss. When creating use cases for this, consider tomorrow, not today. Get your boss a scalable and developable infrastructure and explain what investments will be made according to future scenarios. If possible, have a simple and plain table signed. Bosses tend to forget.

Do not expect service from a supplier that you do not make money from!
If you do not allow Workcube and your other strategic service providers to generate a reasonable profit, you will be digging your own hole. IT is a service business. Service is human work... It would be naive to expect service from someone who loses money while serving you. Moreover, this does not gain anything for you or your business. For the future of your career and the success of your business, you should adjust the dose well. Today, many mindless IT service managers; instead of getting the job done and succeeding, they try to injure their supplier. Keywords: Service, not goods, Reasonable profit, Win-Win.

If you want to get efficiency from the people in Workcube, request a job according to Workcube Project Management Standards!
You can report your requests by phone, mail, face-to-face methods. However, it may be slower to get your requests into the work schedule compared to other Workcube customers who register interaction or work. Also, if you save a job knowing the difference between Bug / Usage Help / Suggestion, you can get more efficiency from Workcube.