The Jury Is Out on Reforming Project Management
February 2nd, 2003 by HalI received numerous replies to the posting Can the Reform of Project Management Succeed? Most were encouraging. Many came by email; while others were the topic of Yahoo! Group discussions. Here are ten of the best quotes:
- I think the project management theory is dated…(I) am a big fan of controlling variability Kalyan
- PM sometimes just has to be "enforced" from the top down. Buck
- If you ask for different reporting and you don't create jobs for traditional PMs and you don't hire any, you have a paradigm shift. David
- In an agile world, the PM's job is to keep the Issue Log empty, not draw the Gantt Chart. Ken
- I actually believe that this decade is when the entire project management paradigm is going to undergo a paradigm shift. Kalyan
- The theory & practice of project management IS stuck in a rut but that's not because of a lack of effort…No, it is mostly because project managers are sticking to an outdated technique. Namely GANTT chart style project planning. Chris
- Do we need to produce a change in project management? Or do we simply need to produce a change in the projects we manage?…If those of us who are passionate about eliminating waste in systems keep learning and sharing, we'll have impact on those projects we touch. Joe
- Tariq offered "these OLD quotes":
- Every time material is handled , something is added to it's cost, yet not to it's value. - Henry Royce, 1907
- It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin
- When the learner is ready, the teacher will come. - Taiichi Ohno
- We don't have to change; survival isn't mandatory. - W. Edwards Deming
- Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between "cost cutting" and "eliminating the causes" of costs. Brian L. Joiner
- The schedule, which used to be the assumed management tool, is a path only marked in the distance now. At best it has always been a guess as to the steps needed. Steve
- The PMI will disappear unless its members embrace progressive paradigms. Marton
Long live the reform!
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January 11th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Martin stated that PMI will disappear unless it members embrace progressive paradigms. I was at PMI Global Congress (2006) in Seattle this year and the number of presentations about leadership, agile approaches, team building, progressive techniques to manage variability, and organizational enablers then there were on stuffy subjects like traditional scheduling. By definition, a standard is something that is in common use. But in recognition of the rapid changes in the state of project management, PMI is accelarating the rate at which new new standards coming out and updating their thinking to include a broader view of organizations roles in projects managment. The people at PMI are passionate about figuring out and promoting paradigms and techniques that deliver projects successfully.