After past 2 weeks of chaos, things are going more smooth now. Management support clear much of the road blocks. Hope next week would be the last week in China. Really need to appreciate people that helped me.
Project management is always a tough job, especially when counterparts are disorganized. In many occasion, it would be too late to discover someone missed the ball or misinterpret messages. I must say all of my staffs are good & diligent, but fail to complete their responsibility in critical path is discouraging, especially when all teams are using all efforts to meet common goal. Any ways to help them out? I think it is just a lack of skills.
Would transparency in cross-functional teams help? At least it could keep whole team on the same page. I am thinking of a better project management tool/function for manufacturer...
My company is always like a "long head" exponential curve, efficiency is only high in the end. I guess it would not be a bad thing, athought it makes me having many sleepless night. Any ways to improve it?
I could say my company is top notch, can not imagine how lesser companies run projects. I need to remember all incidents with one of my supplier which nearly screw me up. It is a paradox that a company too open to customer would create a never-fed-up monster like me, too closed would create like darting in dark. I start to feel compassion to them, a varition of stockholm syndrome?
The excitement from the market on my project give me a shot of adrenalin! People are eagerly paying $$ even before they saw an actual product!!! Come even closer to my US$9M.
Here I remind myself to write a summary on this project next week.
On the other hand, I nearly dropped US$400,000 on sales of current products this month. I missed to data crunch and monitor supply, god bless that everything is fine now.
It is interesting that I feel uncomfortable & could not accustom to less hustle life, even though scene of gruelling life is still lingering in mind.
Cynthia is complaining and singing 愛得太遲 repeatedly...
