Losing Your Sense Of Direction
From the The Project Shrink Blog
by Bas de Baar
Bas de Baar is a Dutch visual facilitator, creating visual tools for dialogue. He is dedicated to improve the dialogue we use to make sense of change.
As The Project Shrink, this is the riddle he tries to solve:
“If you are a Project Manager that operates for a short period of time in a foreign organization, with a global team you don’t know, in a domain you would not know, using virtual communication, high uncertainty, limited authority and part of what you do out in the open on the Internet, how do you make it all work?”
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Bas de Baar is a writer who draws about people in transition. He loves to make visual maps and travel guides for the collaborators of our brave new world.
Posted on: February 18, 2013 07:01 AM |
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Wai Mun Koo
PMO Director| Intergraph PP&M
Singapore, Singapore
Hello Bas,
So nice to see you back, after such a long time... :-)
Thanks Wai! Glad to be back :)
Yeah, glad you are back! Haven't been reading this ever since you left...now I'm back on board....because you are back!
Aamer Inam
Project Manager| NetSol Technologies Inc
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Pretty good post once again Bas ! Thumbs up ! What I understood from the pictorial depiction are the reasons of losing direction and If we apply this our Project Life cycle in practice , teams start losing direction due to factors mentioned below ( This is just a thought) :
When the change comes and team lose focus just because teams do not understand the scope and its implications on rest of the system
Communication Problem (interference)
When teams jump from one project to another with out a defined and proper planning (Bad Planning)
When solutions orientation is not aligned with what client perceive it to be.
When there is inadequate quality assurance practices prevail
When we do not prioritize and do not account for the opportunity cost while planning phase
Some of the points popped up in mind after looking at the pictorial depiction
Hi Aamer, thanks for your kind comment! Oooo so glad the image is working for you. :)
Oh yes, we can lose direction because of all kinds of reasons. Or becoming dependent on methods so we forget to rely on our own local knowledge :) One of my favs. :D T
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