Project Leadership Perspective

I came across this article at Times Online.  Amen!

It's interesting to me how quickly the much loved and much taught project management skills associated with methdologies, estimating and planning become almost irrelevant as projects scale-up - and as they start to contain human behaviour /organisational outcomes.  I'm not sure this article recognises that insight, but it's certainly on the right course.

-- Philip Greenwood

Project Dogma?

I saw on a blog somewhere a couple of interesting definitions that have been cropping up in my thoughts recently.

Methodology + Mindlessness = Dogma

Methodology + Mindfulness = Excellence

How many project methodology graduates have been taught to use a hammer, and then see nails everywhere? In fact they lose the ability to see anything else!

Do you see your project through the filters of the methodology you are most familiar with? Can you see your project outside of these filters? What fresh insight might this give you?

- Jason Bates (I'm back)

Tags:
methodology, Project+Management, Perception, Dogma