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The Biggest Trend in Project Management and How To Thrive Diane Dromgold

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The Biggest Trend in Project Management

and How To Thrive

Diane Dromgold

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Organisations are only doing two things:

1. Stuff that gets today’s results (business as usual); and

2. Stuff to get tomorrow’s results (projects).

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A brief ‘modern’ history of projects

Society had a problem.

We needed a way to get things done – things that couldn’t be achieved in

normal daily operations and activities.

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We invented the corporation as a way to get things done that couldn’t be done

otherwise…

In the 2003 film, “The Corporation”

Noam Chomsky said corporations were groups of people chartered by the state to perform a particular function (that they couldn’t perform on their own); and

Mary Zepernick Director Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy stated that corporations operated under charters constrained by:

• how long they could operate;• the amount of capitalization allowed;• what they made and did; and• provided for the shareholders being responsible. Sounds a lo

t

like a project

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Corporations got complicated, bureaucratised and rigid

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Then they needed a way to get things done

So they invented …. Projects!

(mini corporations)

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Projects (or mini corporations)

• Temporary organisations to get something done that has no other way of being achieved;

• Established with clear accountabilities, for specific periods and to achieve specific things;

• Sits outside existing structures; and

• Controlled by the boss (project manager).

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They worked…

and organisations wanted more.

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Enthusiasm for using projects keeps going up

1990 2000 2010 2020 2030

605040302010

Some commentators argue we’re already here

RNC evidence (1000+ cases)

%

% of org. spend on projects

The project driven

organisation

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Enter the productivity and efficiency consultants

Maximum utilisation of all resources

•Matrix reporting

•% allocation of time to line and project activities

•People working on several things at the same time.

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Projects no longer stand alone

This is the biggest trend in projects and their management

today.

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Business

Project

ProjectProject

Project

Yesterday

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Business

Projects

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Today

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It’s all blurry now

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It’s not going back any time soon.

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How do we…? ??

??

??

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…succeed without overt control?

?

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Succeed with competing demands on people?

?

?

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Plan and budget without control over resources?

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Those were the days my

friend

?

?

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Get people to do what we want them to do…

and when we want them to do it?

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No matter what we learn in project management education.

No matter what tools, procedures, processes and

reports we need to use…

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… It’s all about youand them.

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Think in terms of campaign management...

Influence is the key.

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Being Influential

“Seek first to understand; then to be understood.”

St Francis of Assisi - Stephen Covey

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Notes to self

Work out who cares – and what it is they care about

Run the project they want – not the one I think they should want

Craft the project story – and get everyone on script

Don’t take people’s commitment for granted – no one works for or with me unless they want to

No one buys in unless it works for them

I need to know who has the power of yes – and the power of no

Beware the delegate sponsor.

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Talk to us –

Diane DromgoldManaging DirectorRNC Global Projects

Head Office Level 5719-29 Martin PlaceSydney NSW 2000

Other OfficesSingapore; Hong Kong; USA; Canberra

[email protected] 622 649+61 2 9238 1990