So, what is project management? Try project based working, it will help you
Posted: Friday, March 10, 2006
by Ron Rosenhead
Project Agency
Look around any organisation – large, medium and small. You
have people, professional staff engaged in projects. These
can include for example:
1. service improvements
2. costs reduction
3. product development
4. staff development
5. improved sales
Where someone or a team are engaged in delivering a change,
then you have a clear project and need to apply project
management principles. But as we will show below, many
people fail to recognise that the application to day-to-day
work of some of the tools within project management can help
them enormously and answer a key question!
any of our project management events is…..what is a project
and what is not as project? There are many book definitions
which have failed to satisfy people on our courses. I am not
of course criticising the project management definitions,
simply saying that people who come our courses want much
more clarity – what is and what is not a project?
They want answers that will put work (project management
work or non project management work) into neat boxes,
project work here, non project work there. However, work is
not like this. So, how can we help them, and we hope you?
To answer this we have developed a process called PROJECT
BASED WORKING. The process is simple we take some of the
component parts of project management, for example:
a) developing a business case b) having clear objectives
for your project c) carrying out risk assessment d)
managing stakeholders
We take the tools and processes within the above areas and
apply to day to day work (business as usual). Here are some
examples
? why do that report? (business case) ? are you
clear what the objective is with that day to day task? ?
organising the meeting - what can go wrong (risk) ? who
do you need to involve to ensure a satisfactory delivery of
the task – managing stakeholders
These are some simple examples of what we mean by project
based working -applying some of the tools of project
management to day to day work.
So, why worry about what is and what is not a project? Use
these tools on all types of work, everyday!
Many people who have come on project management events have
argued over this issue and it only when we explain about
project based working they understand.
So the next time someone asks the questions ‘what is a
project?’ tell them about project based working. Explain
what it is and how helps others and, how it can help them!
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Ron Rosenhead helps people deliver projects To receive your
free e-course on project management go to:
http://www.deliverthatproject.com
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