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I am beginning my twelfth week at this endeavor. Frankly, I didn't know whether I'd have something to say or comment on for this long. (Although some of my friends knew better!) What started as a personal writing project has become a project to educate Hal.
I am enjoying this blogging thing. It has been quite easy to get going, particularly with the wealth of tools available (most for free). My inspiration came from Dan Pink. His Just One Thing weblog connected me day-to-day to Dan and his evolving interests. However, what looked like an easy practice of writing a journal has turned out to be quite the research effort. That's good. I am getting more grounded and clear about why a change is needed and what possibly we can change to.
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I am getting ready to speculate (I don't dare say "propose") on a basis for a new theory and practice of project management. In the upcoming weeks I'll write more about uncertainty as a basis of project theory and practice. I'll try to identify a collection of principles for a new unifying theory. I'm also considering proposing a curriculum for the reformed project manager. As I do this I want to connect to more people who share a dissatisfaction with the status quo. I need your help in getting the word out. This morning I added Hot or Not?, the weblog rating service, to the bar under the Reforming Project Management title. Please take the time to click on the link and rate the weblog. Over the last 8 weeks I added an email subscription process (Bloglet), a refer-a-friend process, and a blogrolling link for others who are writing weblogs.
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Hello Frank,
I thought I was being scolded there for awhile.
My ‘healthy respect’ for TOC notwithstanding, the prevalent paradigm for projects is detached, deterministic, and reductionist. We encourage, even prescribe, project planners to take finer and finer cuts of project work with the intent they determine exactly what will be done, at what cost, and by when, failing ever to consider ‘who’ will perform the task and what else might be going on for that person. The approach is a crock. :-:
While you and I may agree, many readers of this weblog, however dissatisfied they are with the status quo, will continue with their practices of establishing project plans for others well into the future. I intend to help them adopt a different set of practices — scrum, last planner, FDD, agile, TOC — and provide a coherent story for doing so.
Thanks Frank for getting me going just before turning in for the nite.