#SOOP-3 #pm_ngt Projects are how people create change to status quo & enable return on the effort expended Projects are entirely anthropormorphic – I.E. people based and the only reason people run projects is to change the world. A project is a system (complex and adaptive) whose purpose is to change its containing system. Strangely (well actually obviously if […]
#SOOP-2 #pm_ngt PM grew-up on the supplier side of change: result deep rooted, hard to see misconceptions in so many sources
#SOOP-2 #pm_ngt PM grew-up on the supplier side of change: the result is deeply rooted, hard to see misconceptions in all widespread common sources. Over the last 50 years as people have struggled with good project delivery they have sought to codify, structure and share what they have done that has been successful The state of […]
#SOOP-1 A project is a decision making architecture
#SOOP-1 A project is a decision making architecture The purpose of a project is to enable a return on investment by pursuing an opportunity or avoiding a threat. A project consumes an investment to change the current status quo or alter change that would otherwise occur. We deliver projects by taking actions that we posit […]
Muses on the nature of projects: The Investor’s Fog
When a business embarks on change (rather than a ‘text-book’ definition of a project) it is common for many competing and contributing factors to be involved. Not all factors will be clearly defined, nor will all factors affect all participants. As a business concludes change it never arrives at a state of absolute stasis, there […]
#pm_ngt-018 Forms of Capital are human, intellectual…
#pm_ngt-018 Forms of capital are Culture, Procedures, Fixed Assets and Money. When capital interacts effectively we get benefits These four forms of capital in human endeavours could be re-described as human, intellectual, physical and financial. Human capital is an unattractive term because it sounds inhumane: it simply describes shared understanding and shared values about acceptable […]