the biggest trend in project management today
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The Biggest Trend in Project Management
and How To Thrive
Diane Dromgold
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Organisations are only doing two things:
1. Stuff that gets today’s results (business as usual); and
2. Stuff to get tomorrow’s results (projects).
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A brief ‘modern’ history of projects
Society had a problem.
We needed a way to get things done – things that couldn’t be achieved in
normal daily operations and activities.
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We invented the corporation as a way to get things done that couldn’t be done
otherwise…
In the 2003 film, “The Corporation”
Noam Chomsky said corporations were groups of people chartered by the state to perform a particular function (that they couldn’t perform on their own); and
Mary Zepernick Director Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy stated that corporations operated under charters constrained by:
• how long they could operate;• the amount of capitalization allowed;• what they made and did; and• provided for the shareholders being responsible. Sounds a lo
t
like a project
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Corporations got complicated, bureaucratised and rigid
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Then they needed a way to get things done
So they invented …. Projects!
(mini corporations)
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Projects (or mini corporations)
• Temporary organisations to get something done that has no other way of being achieved;
• Established with clear accountabilities, for specific periods and to achieve specific things;
• Sits outside existing structures; and
• Controlled by the boss (project manager).
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They worked…
and organisations wanted more.
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Enthusiasm for using projects keeps going up
1990 2000 2010 2020 2030
605040302010
Some commentators argue we’re already here
RNC evidence (1000+ cases)
%
% of org. spend on projects
The project driven
organisation
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Enter the productivity and efficiency consultants
Maximum utilisation of all resources
•Matrix reporting
•% allocation of time to line and project activities
•People working on several things at the same time.
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Projects no longer stand alone
This is the biggest trend in projects and their management
today.
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Business
Project
ProjectProject
Project
Yesterday
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Business
Projects
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Today
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It’s all blurry now
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It’s not going back any time soon.
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How do we…? ??
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…succeed without overt control?
?
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Succeed with competing demands on people?
?
?
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Plan and budget without control over resources?
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Those were the days my
friend
?
?
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Get people to do what we want them to do…
and when we want them to do it?
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No matter what we learn in project management education.
No matter what tools, procedures, processes and
reports we need to use…
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… It’s all about youand them.
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Think in terms of campaign management...
Influence is the key.
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Being Influential
“Seek first to understand; then to be understood.”
St Francis of Assisi - Stephen Covey
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Notes to self
Work out who cares – and what it is they care about
Run the project they want – not the one I think they should want
Craft the project story – and get everyone on script
Don’t take people’s commitment for granted – no one works for or with me unless they want to
No one buys in unless it works for them
I need to know who has the power of yes – and the power of no
Beware the delegate sponsor.
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Talk to us –
Diane DromgoldManaging DirectorRNC Global Projects
Head Office Level 5719-29 Martin PlaceSydney NSW 2000
Other OfficesSingapore; Hong Kong; USA; Canberra
[email protected] 622 649+61 2 9238 1990