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What project techniques make the biggest contribution to project success? Gantt charts? No. Earned Value? No. Critical Path? No. The biggest contributor just might be "all that jazz." Read what these authors have to say, Playing the Live Jazz of Project Management.
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Adopt this mnemonic for your project environment. Thanks Matt for writing about it.
Raven is consolidating project management hash tags for use on Twitter. Thank you Raven!
Read the latest story of how green meets lean, or should I say kaizen? It's a Wall St Journal article that you don't want to miss.
It irks me when people play games with their writing. It wastes the readers' time, turns them off to what one has to say, and creates idealogical warfares. Write clearly...for the readers. Sorry for this outburst. Let's speak (and write) so we can be understood. Our projects will benefit from that.
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Hal,
The world has a vast variety of music. The PMs at DOE, DoD, NASA probably don’t appriciate the improvisation aspects of the “jazz” approach to project managment. More the classical orchestra paradigm I suspect.
The Project Jazz approach looks to be very pratical! I have come to the realization that viewing any structure in life as enabling, rather than limiting, helps to foster continuous improvement. I believe that this outlook on life, in general, can lead to effective project management.
I wonder if a lot of PMPs rigidly follow the PMBoK knowledge areas, or if they are able to “go with the flow” as necessary.
Great article!
The Jazz of PM is alive and well since we first founded Project Jazz, LLC. We are now practicing JPM in our systems I.T. startup, FSPS , Inc. Improv, during the “flow” of a project, has been regarded as a key strength in our projects. Enjoy the rifs, or enjoy the 80% and growing over time, over budget projects.
PM