Project Integrity Day, Why Have It?
January 9th, 2003 by HalProject Integrity Day - January 17
Even the best projects drift. The typical project management tasks can be consuming. We spend our time attending to budgets, schedule changes, status reports, change orders, and expediting. While we know what we believe, what we understand to be best practice, and what we've promised to our team and our clients, as we deal with the day-to-day issues we begin to stray.
Chris Argyris, Harvard Professor and author, claims we have an espoused theory and a theory-in-use. We will set out to bring our theory-in-use in congruence with our espoused theory. For the upcoming Project Integrity Day, I won't make any judgements on the appropriateness of anyone's espoused theory. The aim for the day is integrity.
How will it work?
We will all get together on a conference call. Really. (I've done this before. Trust me.) There are eight areas that I propose we examine to bring our projects into integrity. (I'll elaborate on the Eight Ps of Integrity in tomorrow's posting.) Each hour starting at 10:00 AM EST we will have a short conversation about one or two of the areas of project integrity. I'll ask conference participants to offer a situation that they see is out of integrity and the action that could rectify the situation. I'll invite five people each hour to offer examples and the balance of listeners to comment as they see fit. We will end the call by agreeing to go off to take action. At the top of the next hour we will review the progress made and then go on to the next topic.
By end of day Tuesday, January 17, I will post the registration process for the teleconference. Please don't ask me about it before then. The whole process will be free to participants except for the long-distance phone call. I will set-up a tele-bridge (robust phone line) for the call. (I'll cover the costs of reserving the line.) All you need to do is get ready.
I'll continue to make postings on Project Integrity to help you prepare for the event.
BTW, I'm inventing this as I go. For those of you daring enough to go along for the ride, we should have a good time.
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