Comments on: Off to Colorado http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2002/12/10/78/ The magazine for the project age Wed, 08 Oct 2008 08:43:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Bolivar Senior http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2002/12/10/78/#comment-427 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2002/12/10/78/#comment-427 Hal offered his lecture at CSU last night. It was great, and I took away more than the formal content from it. The first lesson learned came from the questions about lean delivery raised by students. For example: Are you saying that all we’ve heard about WBS is BS? How do you develop the detailed tasks that you are proposing? What if someone doesn’t want to play ball? And so on. Some of the best questions came from undergraduates. The similarity of these questions and the ones you hear from practitioners at LCI events was remarkable. There is much to learn from listening to these questions about the reservations that are likely to be raised when teaching lean. Instruction should be elaborated with these concerns in mind, and I took note of each one of them. Another notable issue in Hal’s lecture was that he barely ever mentioned the word “lean.” He was able to develop his points around familiar / standard terms that people felt comfortable with. This added substantially more credibility to his delivery, because he did not portrait himself as the Possessor of the Occult Knowledge. That was a great second point to be learned from the lecture. In summary, thanks, Hal, for the lecture and beer. I hope we can do it again. Hal offered his lecture at CSU last night. It was great, and I took away more than the formal content from it. The first lesson learned came from the questions about lean delivery raised by students. For example: Are you saying that all we’ve heard about WBS is BS? How do you develop the detailed tasks that you are proposing? What if someone doesn’t want to play ball? And so on. Some of the best questions came from undergraduates. The similarity of these questions and the ones you hear from practitioners at LCI events was remarkable. There is much to learn from listening to these questions about the reservations that are likely to be raised when teaching lean. Instruction should be elaborated with these concerns in mind, and I took note of each one of them.

Another notable issue in Hal’s lecture was that he barely ever mentioned the word “lean.” He was able to develop his points around familiar / standard terms that people felt comfortable with. This added substantially more credibility to his delivery, because he did not portrait himself as the Possessor of the Occult Knowledge. That was a great second point to be learned from the lecture.

In summary, thanks, Hal, for the lecture and beer. I hope we can do it again.

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