#SOOP-7 #pmngt Projects need people. People don’t need process, but it improves chance & speed & size of impact There are a lot of ironies in the use of methods (for project management or any other discipline). The first is they increase the costs and amount of knowledge required to deliver results not decrease them. […]
#SOOP-6 #pm_ngt Projects (stages, sprints, work-packages, etc) that don’t change the world are cost without value
#SOOP-6 #pm_ngt Projects (stages, sprints, work-packages, etc) that don’t change the world are cost without value A project burns money to create potential – if it doesn’t deliver a result then the costs were incurred without pay-back – that is either fraud or incompetence Successful projects need a new approach and that approach is #pm_ngt ~~O~~ #pm_ngt Is […]
#SOOP-5 #pmngt Good guidance avoids unproductive bureaucracy – sadly that isn’t PM‘s reputation!
#SOOP-5 #pmngt Good guidance avoids unproductive bureaucracy – sadly that isn’t PRINCE2®‘s reputation! PM guidance has been collected over a few decades, and lots of it is good stuff, BUT people then demand that others demonstrate they know this good stuff and that leads to exams. Exams (recruitment filters on “have you got the magic initials”) and […]
#SOOP-4 #pmngt The idea that “project management” is the discipline that matters is wrong to start with!
#SOOP-4 #pmngt The idea that “project management” is the discipline that matters is wrong to start with! The topic of actual interest to the people who supply the money that pays for projects is BENEFITS. The topic is investment management and it has three timeframes: Appraisal of ideas, Delivery of Capability and Harvesting of Benefits […]
#SOOP-3 #pm_ngt Projects are how people create change to status quo & enable return on the effort expended
#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 […]