Projects

PROJECT WORK FUTURES

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. Napoleon Hill – Self-Help Author In a projectized organization, work is organized into project teams that form and disband when work is finished.  Each VUCAN evolves into a project professional responsible for getting work done on time and on budget while satisfying stakeholders. Often, …

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AGILE PROJECTS

Software projects fail for one of two general reasons: the project team lacks the knowledge to conduct a software project successfully or the project team lacks the resolve to conduct a project effectively. Steve McConnell – Software Engineer & Writer The New York Times a few years ago had an article called ‘The New Workplace Is Agile and Nonstop’.  …

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DIY WORK

Your work should be an extended hobby. Richard Saul Wurman – Writer and Thinker Entrepreneurship, ‘doing it your way’, is in.  The startup dream is alive and well as attested by many who want to immigrate to the U.S.   A new meritocracy is found inside and outside companies.  You’re rewarded for your ideas, initiative, perseverance, performance, …

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PROJECT CONDUCTOR <=> RISK MANAGER

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. Winston Churchill – English Prime Minister Project management is risk management.  If projects were simple, straightforward, and had no risk of cost, schedule, scope, and quality variances, then a project manager wouldn’t be necessary.  I like the model of orchestra conductor as …

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ORCHESTRA PROCESS & PROJECT WORK MODEL

Understand the culture of the new company (with which you are joining or negotiating) and its standards of what is reasonable. James Nunan – Business person What’s the best metaphor for defining the project structure and process for getting lean and agile work done?  It may be an orchestra. An orchestra does both process and project work.  Let’s first look at …

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