Archive for May, 2005

Where in the World is the Project Reformer?

Monday, May 30th, 2005

I've been out of circulation for a number of reasons for the last month. But I've not been idle. A few people have suggested I bring my course on becoming more reliable in the project environment to a larger population. It took me awhile, but here it is.

Let's Play Catch!™ is the orientation I bring to my work with others. I've learned that project success depends in large part on the reliability of completion of each and every task. Goldratt taught us about the compound effects of dependence and variability on throughput in the production environment. It turns out those effects are more serious in the project environment. They key is to get reliability in task completion. But how?

Ten years ago I introduced a game for learning to be responsive reliable performers. Four years ago I started teaching securing reliable promises in the project setting. Until last month, I hadn't put the two together. (So, I'm a little slow…) It took one of my coaching friends to prompt me to put them together. And so Let's Play Catch! was born.

I've started by creating a website and a mini-course by email. The course is 10 lessons, each about 2 minutes long. There's no charge for the mini-course. I'll be posting on the website once each week for starters. Eventually, I'll have a course to offer.

In the meantime, have a look, try the mini-course, and refer the site to your project team members who could use a little nudge ;) .

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