leadership and project management concepts
DESCRIPTION
Introduces concepts around the complexity of execution and the dependency of successful project management on leadership, culture, and purpose.TRANSCRIPT
Statistics show change failure as high asBut your company is exceptional with a success rate of 70%
Is ?30%failure good
If your company fails to execute, is it just a collection of failed projects ?
What’s wrong?
Where does the problem really start
?
Is it strategic or tactical?
If your organization can’t do what you think you’re asking….
Do you think they know what you’re asking ?
Things to ponder
If you asked your management team to summarize your strategy on a sticky...
Would everyone say the same thing?
Would they say anything?
How about staff?
What would YOU write?
If your job was an elected position,
how would it change your approach to
human capital management
?
What else?
Never enough people
The pros and cons approach
“I have found great advantage from this kind of equation in what may be called moral or prudential algebra.
Benjamin Franklin, 1772
Never enough resources
It’s difficult to get functional areas to look outside of their environment
It’s complicated
“Where id was, there ego shall be
Sigmund Freud
Now what?
Build foundation
Do proceed with the end in mind
Just make sure others can see it
Yes, you can change the culture,
because you
are the
culture
Align,
not assign
Yes, be agile
but don’t forget that you have prior successes from which to draw
embrace change,&
Make decisions wisely
Do you need a PMO?
Sometimes it’s about the decision you make,
but it’s always about how you implement it
If you build it,
will it show value?
Educate
We used to call project managers supervisors, managers, and directors
!
Nice idea,
but what
does it do
?
Location
Location
Location!
VisionCulture
AlignProcess
History
Build
?Make sense