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Provide Leadership to Implement Critical Change Requests Scope change is not inherently bad or good. However, the team can react to changes in positive and negative ways, depending on the state of the project. A typical reaction from most project teams is to just go ahead and make the approved changes. However, there is another reaction that can be more problematic - the team may not want to make any more changes. This is the scenario for this column. This situation could occur for a variety of reasons. This may be a long project, perhaps requiring overtime, and people just want the project to end. The proposed changes will require a lot of work, and the deadline date is being held firm. Again, overtime may be required from the team. Members of the project team and the client have not had a smooth relationship on the project. There may be project team members that do not want to help the client further. The changes require major upstream rework - including changes to requiremen...

Remember is that it is impossible to categorize everyone within a profession.  You can make some general assumptions about technical people, but this does not mean that the assumptions apply to everyone.  As a manager, you must ultimately have multiple techniques that you can apply to different people in different circumstances.  One technique will not work for all people at all times.  That being said, let’s make some generalizations about managing technical staff on your project. They tend to be introverts .  Generally speaking, the definition of an introvert is one who is primarily more comfortable with an inward focus in life while an extrovert is generally more comfortable with an outward focus.  For example, when introverts receive a lot of new information, they tend to want to think for a while before speaking or drawing conclusions.  Extroverts, on the other hand, are more comfortable expressing ideas to others.  If they jump to the wrong conclusions, they just change their m...

Remember is that it is impossible to categorize everyone within a profession.  You can make some general assumptions about technical people, but this does not mean that the assumptions apply to everyone.  As a manager, you must ultimately have multiple techniques that you can apply to different people in different circumstances.  One technique will not work for all people at all times.  That being said, let’s make some generalizations about managing technical staff on your project. They tend to be introverts .  Generally speaking, the definition of an introvert is one who is primarily more comfortable with an inward focus in life while an extrovert is generally more comfortable with an outward focus.  For example, when introverts receive a lot of new information, they tend to want to think for a while before speaking or drawing conclusions.  Extroverts, on the other hand, are more comfortable expressing ideas to others.  If they jump to the wrong conclusions, they just change their m...