Day 2: Gathering Your Feedback
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PMIEMEA17
Categories: PMIEMEA17
| Over the past two days, we've had the rare opportunity to learn from the experiences of some talented presenters. I thought I'd spend a little time today to hear how attendees were feeling about it all. From the food to the content, you were happy to share! Ciao-ciao, Sarah Can you tell me about one of the sessions you really enjoyed today? [re: A Guide to PMBOK 6th Edition, #209] "I found the session on PMBOK 6th edition really interesting. The new structure with a focus on innovation was really good and this is something I can apply in my company for my colleagues who want to get PMP certified." - Leonardo, Healthcare, Italy [re: Creating a Circle of Safety for Your Project Team, #216] "I’m a program manager and I work with lots of project managers all over the world. And with some of them you’re really going, ‘how do I really get them to engage and how do I get them to want to do this work?’ [This session] was all about putting yourself in their shoes and thinking about treating them how you’d like to be treated and it was really refreshing to think about it.
What has been the best part of this Congress for you, so far? "The food is really good. The venue is really amazing, people are really friendly. When you ask for support, you get support, so I think it very well organized." - Nicole, ChemTech, Sweden "It’s very well organized. The breaks and the sessions are timed just right. It’s enough time to take it in, but not enough time to lose focus and the breaks are staggered nicely and the food is lovely! We’re also running on time, which I wasn’t expecting, but I’m pleased to see." - Catherine, FinTech, Ireland |
The Five Rules of Business Execution
| Presenter: Te Wu This presentations was extremely informative, well-documented, and full of insights about Strategic Business Execution Key findings 1. The best of non-profit "out-execute" public for-profit companies (but the average non-profit organisations are significantly worse than for-profit businesses) 2. Organisations go through growing pains. 3. Business Discipline, i.e. the more satisfied the respondents are the higher they perform in term of execution. 4. Aligning Strategy and Execution is clearly important! 5. Project Reporting Accuracy, as business decisions depend on them. The Five Rules of Business Execution 1. Focus on the vital few 2. Determine what is "good enough" for the rest 3. Establish good metrics system 4. Nurture and motivate people 5. Develop a culture of execution readiness Main takeaways What can we do to serve better our customers? Always take ownership to have a SUSTAINABLE Execution Excellence.
I like the fact that this session was engaging but with immediate suggestions and insights I can implement as of tomorrow. I am closing this blog with a quote from Aristotle, re-adapted by Mr Wu himself to better fit strategic business environments.
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Why Are Bad Projects So Hard To Kill?
| Presenters: Mike O'Brochta and Fabio Rigamonti (disclaimer: this is me) The session was extremely interactive having Mike sharing his experiences about climbing and how this relates for him to bad projects. Death March A death march will involve desperate attempts to right the course of the project by asking team members to work especially grueling hours or by attempting to "throw (enough) bodies at the problem", often causing burnout. We did a quick poll, and this sounded very familiar for many attendees Four Behaviors causing Bad Projects
These four behaviour can contribute to keeping death march projects needlessly alive, undermining our basic values of responsibility, respect, fairness, and honesty. Once those basic values are compromised, so too are ethics, trust, leadership, and project success.
Actions Actions are available to project managers to help avoid being victimized by bad projects.
More resources There are more resources made available on this site.
... and you, have you have had a bad project?
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Project management is imitation, not innovation - from PMI Congress in Rome
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EMEA
Categories: EMEA
I've lost my keys in the garden and I look for them in the livingroom because it's dark outsideToday, I've attended Mike Fernette and Majeed Hosseiney presentation in Rome at the PMI EMEA Congress. They started with the following short story. Majeed had lost his keys. He was looking for them where the light was. But the keys were in a shadow place. So he couldn't see them. Mike found the keys.
The Hamdan Bin Mohammed AwardI thought this allegory was good to illustrate what I felt when attending the Hamdan Bin Mohammed presentation a few minutes before. The initiative is amazing and, as a project manager, you should look for more information about it by following the link because you could win one of the prizes in a pool of $550,000! Project management relies on imitation not on innovationI believe the Hamdan Bin Mohammed initiative is great to get micro-innovation (incremental innovation) in the project management profession. The reason why I believe that is because they talk to the project management profession. People who consider themselves as professional PM already meet each other so they talk about what they do and share their best ideas. The project management profession relies on mimetism (or imitation if you prefer this word): we learn from each other by copying each other. PMI was founded and exists so that people who do project management can meet each other and share their problems and the solutions: that's imitation, copying, mimetism... The core value of project management is imitation, not innovation. Radical innovation will come from outside the professionI believe that radical innovation in project management will come from outside of the project management profession, from people who don't know they do project management. Those people have developed specific solutions to their problem. They don't call it innovation because they don't know it is different to what others do. And they don't know that what they do could be applied in other contexts. What do you think? |
You attended 1st Day: Creepily Fantastic? Do you think you Veni, vidi e vinci?
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Do you feel so excited and victorious like Julius Caesar? It has been a busy journey – Sunday evening while I was having an original Italian expresso I was reviewing the program of the Congress –
I cannot imagine a PMI congress without a visit to the PMI bookstore while taking the first coffee of the morning .. Everything begins slowly and in seconds everything speeds up ... and suddenly you are in a room full of peers ... people that came to see, meet, share and learn.
And what about Vinci? We can say somebody Vinci when they really find something thrilling and that makes them think, create, inspire ... a eureka moment isn’t it? A wow --- Have you find it during the first day? If not, don’t worry, take your time to explore ... be curious ... stay hungry. Even if you are a new comer or super senior PM professional, you can find in the congress a way to be updated about PM and latest researches, at the same time you meet face to face and you can also follow us through social media – a global experience ... Hey I feel right now like a gladiator, fighting my inner Tiger ... I attended the key note session delivered by Gabor George Burt, he talked about re-imaging boundaries, how as project managers we find ourselves leading in times of change and navigating through ‘puzzled’ waters – as super heroes ... Do you feel you have superpowers? ... Of course you have ... is all about people. Companies have people and those people have those superpowers.
PMI Salon session addressed turbulence and uncertainty, chaos ... Do you think chaos is a door to opportunity? I think it is ... just think about the history of the different companies ... Everything is changing, evolving and transforming to a different thing and we will need to adapt. Global economy is influenced by different factors such political shifting’s, workforce demands, ‘seismic’ world powers movements, more ‘silos’ and less cooperation? The key is anticipation ... We need a break yes? :) It is really great to interact, discuss with attendants the session, even meet the presenter ... Second session was hard to chose ... For one time, I wanted to have real super powers :) and divide myself in different replicas to attend most of the sessions ... Last year I met Thomas Mattus, he talked about strategic communication. He gave us some tips and tools that were very helpful for our day to day work.
But yes ... we had to work a little bit ;)
To finish the day I attended a session from Werner Meyer, I met him also last PMI EMEA Congress in Barcelona. Is all about uncertainty ... do you agree? Complexity comes then ... but do you think is it really complex or it could be really simple? I consider sometimes we tend to make things complex and in reality we just need to make an abstraction. Other topics have been covered during the firts day such strategic thinking, agile vs non agile environments, mindfulness, lean organization, portfolio management, strategic communications, ... ... but we don’t always Vinci right? I would like to share with you a ‘failure’ experience: and a Thank you letter:Taming Tigers, A Thank you Letter https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tedx-experience-taming-tigers-thank-you-letter-my-laura-samsó-msc Tame the Inner Tiger, just go to the stage out there. Tomorrow the general topic is about Navigating Boundaries to Drive Innovation where you will have sessions about project failure, risk management, project success agile, portfolio management, creativity, disruption, PMOs, innovation, ... We had the change to meet one of the founders of PMI, James R Snyder
To conclude this post just a short note ... I am preparing a set of interviews ... coming soon! ;) If you want to share with us your experiences just stop us during the breaks or just in the speaking rooms and spread the word out there! |
