Comments on: Projects Are Networks of Commitment http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2004/05/26/352/ The magazine for the project age Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:09:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Alan Mossman http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2004/05/26/352/#comment-946 Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:35:28 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2004/05/26/352/#comment-946 <p>Hal I’ve been thinking about your openning statement “A project is is a single-purpose network of commitment “. The more I thinik about it the more I feel it is a *multi-purpose* network of commitments.</p> <p>This doesn’t affect the other 5 big ideas and the rest of what you say about this one applies too.</p> <p>Multi- purpose because there are multiple projects — the clients’ project, the designer’s project, the main contractor’s and each of the specialist contractors’. It may be ( i’m not yet sure) that in an ideal world they will all be aligned; in reality they are not.</p> <p>Acknowledging the network of projects is vital to allowing them to be openly discussed - perhaps that is a new project tip?</p> <p>with best wishes</p> <p>Alan </p> Hal I’ve been thinking about your openning statement “A project is is a single-purpose network of commitment “. The more I thinik about it the more I feel it is a *multi-purpose* network of commitments.

This doesn’t affect the other 5 big ideas and the rest of what you say about this one applies too.

Multi- purpose because there are multiple projects — the clients’ project, the designer’s project, the main contractor’s and each of the specialist contractors’. It may be ( i’m not yet sure) that in an ideal world they will all be aligned; in reality they are not.

Acknowledging the network of projects is vital to allowing them to be openly discussed - perhaps that is a new project tip?

with best wishes

Alan

]]> by: Lauri http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2004/05/26/352/#comment-217 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2004/05/26/352/#comment-217 Hal, I have read your earlier notes on this and heard you speak on this, but here comes the definitive crystallization of the network of commitments issue. Thanks, this is most helpful. By the way, which are the other big ideas already covered? Cheers, Lauri Hal,
I have read your earlier notes on this and heard you speak on this, but here comes the definitive crystallization of the network of commitments issue. Thanks, this is most helpful.
By the way, which are the other big ideas already covered?

Cheers, Lauri

]]> by: Joe Ely http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2004/05/26/352/#comment-218 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2004/05/26/352/#comment-218 Hal, I ditto Lauri's comment. This is a marvelous summary of what you've been talking about for years. I see application immediately. Here's an idea for a follow-up series, Hal, that might really help folks. Can you write a summary of how this fleshes out in a project setting? Even if you disguise the names, show how a PM would actually do this. I'll bet you've seen this fleshed out and could sketch it out. Isn't it great when other people create ideas that you need to do??!! Thanks! Joe Hal, I ditto Lauri’s comment. This is a marvelous summary of what you’ve been talking about for years. I see application immediately.

Here’s an idea for a follow-up series, Hal, that might really help folks. Can you write a summary of how this fleshes out in a project setting? Even if you disguise the names, show how a PM would actually do this.

I’ll bet you’ve seen this fleshed out and could sketch it out.

Isn’t it great when other people create ideas that you need to do??!!

Thanks! Joe

]]> by: http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2004/05/26/352/#comment-219 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2004/05/26/352/#comment-219 Lauri, Thanks for your endorsement. Look back over the last four Projet e-Tips for four of the five big ideas. Hal Lauri,

Thanks for your endorsement. Look back over the last four Projet e-Tips for four of the five big ideas.

Hal

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