Project celebrations often occur only upon completion of the overall project. However, small celebrations during project implementation should also exist for key portions of the project. These celebrations should typically coincide with a phase completion or a major milestone being accomplished. The reason being to destress and work without getting bogged down.

Project celebrations may take the form of a small party with snacks in the office, a potluck lunch, taking the entire team members out for lunch, or even holding a special dinner for the team including the sponsor and the client. Rewards and key celebrations motivate members who are working many hours to ensure the projects success.

The team behind NASSCOM success

Yesterday we are celebrated the success of NASSCOM MMS and MEDROYALE project completion.  I found high voltage glows on the faces of my colleagues  at the time of project completion,  it was just about 1000 volts of glow. But at the dhabha (where we celebrated the success), I saw 25000 volts of glow on everyone’s faces.  We enjoyed a lot, revile our project flash backs and stress, challenges, our hard work ,night outs etc.. celebrating gives all of us a feeling of a flush of our previous stress with new energy to work on the upcoming projects.

Celebrating the double success at a dhabha

Looking forward to more success celebrations and more success updates from iridium Interactive.

It was only in the last leadership meeting we made a conscious collective decision to come out with a iridium Interactive Celebration Calendar  which is now being discussed in our weekly huddles more than the project delivery plans..

We made it a point to invite all the team members last night, including those who have left Iridium but still feel highly connected with the rest of us. It was great fun sitting at a Dhaba in the open air and talking through those mid night biryanis and early morning dosas and idlis; Although most of us hated those long hours we all were putting in,  when we looked back and refreshed our memories, it was such a great learning that we all had; the day clients came in and congratulated us  and acknowledged the bottom-line impact we have made to their businesses .. I was telling most of the team if they put these project experiences in their resumes nobody in the industry is going to believe them that during recession times the team at iridium Interactive has been working on such world class cutting edge projects.

Folks, now its time for the IIPL third season… yeah its IIPL (iridium Interactive Premier league) and already invites are being sent out to all the iridium Interactive alums and customers too..to be part of the T20 cricket match scheduled for 30th January 2010. If you cant make it for the match watch out our blog or alternatively subscribe to the live twitter feeds at iridium Interactive