Project management essentials

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Project management essentials

Today I'm doing a workshop teaching project managers how to manage projects from the simple to the complex. We will talk about respecting change as both the point and context of all projects. If you are change-phobic, I will argue, do yourself and the planet a favor and avoid being a leader in projects - you'll only succeed in crashing the project and annoying the daylights out of the people cursed to be in your project. I will make the case as I like to do, that project management in the simplest of pragmatic terms comes down to this:
Inviting right people into the right conversations at the right time.
If you think there's more to it than that, like laborythian charts, deus ex machina machinations, and saddle strapping cowboy heroism, think again. There isn't, actually. And so what do we do for the other 7.9 hours in our 8 hour workshop? Get people to unlearn all the crap they learned that gets in the way of the blinding flash of the obvious!
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- 11 March 2010
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almost 2 years ago Jim responded:

"Deus ex machina machinations!" Now that's a phrase. Yahoooo! There is a god after all. Thanks.

almost 2 years ago Tyler responded:

Oddly, I've known that project management was this simple, I just didn't know how to say it.
Thanks Jack.

almost 2 years ago ROBERT SCHEPENS responded:

Perhaps other key components of project management are VISION, and the seeking of Wisdom. Wisdom is used for the future and knowledge is of the past.
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