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Are We There Yet? - Project World Collectable Card #4

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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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Card number 4 in my series of 16 Project World Collectable Cards is titled "Are We There Yet?" Remember, I am creating the most awesome poster that ever existed about projects.

This card is about one of the essential project conversations: How do you know you are on the right track?

 

Lessons From Oz About Stakeholder Management

"Dorothy has no idea how to get to the Wizard in Emerald City. She knows the end destination. How does she know she is on the right track? How does she know the needs she has are going to be met?
 
Ah. Yes. The Yellow Brick Road. As long as you see the yellow bricks, you’re fine."
 

The Yellow Brick Road

"When I was a kid my family drove every summer from The Netherlands down to the south of France. I loved those three day road trips. Navigation systems didn’t exist back then (yes, I am that old) so my father had written down detailed instructions on how to find our way to the Cote d’Azur.    

The drill went like this. He had written down checkpoints we should cross. Like a crossroad, a town, or a specific highway. I would set in the back of the car, leaned forward between the front seats and looking for the next checkpoint. Seeing a checkpoint made me happy. Waiting for one made me anxious. Looking at an expected crossroad provided the confirmation that we were heading in the right direction for our summer holiday."

 

Ah. Yes. The Yellow Brick Road. As long as you see the yellow bricks, you’re fine.

Check out the previous cards:

1. Mostly Harmless

2. The Fellowship

3. The Red Convertible

This is how the cards fit together:

 

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: April 29, 2013 07:09 AM | Permalink

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Aamer Inam Project Manager| NetSol Technologies Inc Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
The key to be on the track is to have a map and splendidly you correlated them with the checkpoints when there was no google map / gps technologies .. excellent insight Bas ! like the way you always present ...

Now a days technology has lots of potential but depending upon the use of it , one can really know what track has been chosen and agreed that let the traveller to reach on destination in a minimum possible time , with least of the hassles ... I would still debate more on the human judgemental analogies where technology is a pretty good assistant !

Know the destination , think of the best track , have an ability to transform to be there with a can do attitude , take the fellow tribesman a long with you and end of the day every one in the tribe would be on the same page. !

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Bas de Baar Zandvoort, Netherlands
Thank you, Aamer!

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