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Actions Speak Louder than Verbs (Part 1)
Ian Whittingham, PMP is director of Calixo Consulting, providing project and program management expertise from initiation through to implementation, covering business transformation, workflow process re-engineering, and enterprise data integration. He is a regular contributor to ProjectManagement.com. You may contact Ian directly at [email protected].
A city is held to ransom by a villain of diabolical intent. The Commissioner summons the only person capable of saving them from this nefarious peril. A familiar masked figure descends from the sky, his long cape flowing behind him. How will he deliver the metropolis from the clutches of this malign figure? How will he overcome the evil-doer’s malevolent powers? He steps forward, ready to confront the challenge. “I want to be sure we’re all on the same page, Commissioner!” he exclaims, emphasizing his readiness for action by punching his clenched fist into the palm of his hand. “Let’s open a dialog on this project, so I can download your status.”
Anyone familiar with Neil McAllister’s Action Item, Professional Super Hero will have encountered, at one time or another in their career, his real-life alter ego. Full of good intentions, Action Item always wants to do right by the project. A persistent and systematic documenter, he is every PMO’s poster child and every sponsor’s nightmare. Detail-oriented to the last degree, everything he touches is transmuted into an action item that can be logged, analyzed, assigned and tracked. Nothing escapes his web of words. And yet, though we can’t quite put our finger on it, a sixth sense warns us that something is not quite right.
We begin to see a pattern …
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