Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Nov 30, 2019 11:21 AM
Replying to George Freeman
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Luis,
You purport in your topics and comments to desire a discourse (i.e., a reflection) on subjects, and you further state you want opinions. However, there are times when your replies take on personally negative connotations.
Anton’s comment is an opinion that gets stated often in this community, and that is “this subject/tool is nothing new.” Anton did not make any statements towards you; he instead directed his strong comments towards the tool/technique. However, your statement --- I ask myself, What will drive a person who has 75 points of influence in this community and is invited to speak at conferences organized by ProjectManagement.com to make this comment? will be viewed as a personal “jab.”
I understand there are sometimes translation issues, but I would ask that you make additional consideration before posting replies like this.
Dear George Thanks for your comment and for sharing it.
As you can see, I just asked a question.
This question could have been asked otherwise: "What will lead an influential person in this community to approach a topic this way?" Just and only that
Let's assume it was a translation-related question
I take the opportunity to ask you that you already knew the methodology I covered in this topic? Have you applied it? What results did you get? Saving Changes...
Stéphane ParentSelf Employed / Semi-retired| Leader MakerPrince Edward Island, Canada
Nov 26, 2019 6:11 PM
Replying to Luis Branco
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Dear Stephane
Thank you for participating in this reflection and for your comment.
I will write a little about the methodology.
IS:
- A methodology used to create a project template
- Used on an A1 screen
- Inspired by Business Model Canvas
- Based on neuroscience principles:
* Simplify (our brain. Our prefrontal cortex doesn't carry many things at once)
* Group (when we group things together they make more sense and make memorization easier)
* Involve (the more stakeholders involved the more they participate and the more easily they buy the project idea)
It has 4 steps:
- Conceive
- Integrate
- Develop
- Share
Would you like to know more about this model?
It sounds like yet another life cycle (YALF), Luis.
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1 reply by Luis Branco
Dec 02, 2019 4:33 AM
Luis Branco
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Dear Stéphane:
Thanks for your comment
Does YALF mean the same thing I'm thinking? (Young Aspirants Leadership Fellowship) :-)
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Anton OosthuizenSenior Business Analyst / Project Manager| Self EmployedPretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Luis
You might not like or agree with my opinion and that is certainly your prerogative. Make me think of Patton's famous quote - "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking". Who knows maybe I don't want to be the one not thinking :)
But you are right, no matter how old something might be, we do not always practice it so maybe rebranding old things as new is a good way of getting us to think about what we should be doing all along.
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1 reply by Luis Branco
Dec 02, 2019 4:26 AM
Luis Branco
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Dear Anton
I have been trying for many years to practice Stephen Covey's public victory habits:
- Think win-win
- Seek first to understand, then to be understood
- Synergize
I accept, respect, understand that there are different opinions from mine.
I always try to develop empathy.
My question is an attempt to understand what is behind your approach (not in content but in form)
I would like you to tell me in the field of management (which includes project management) about some theory or approach that is innovative
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Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dec 01, 2019 11:24 PM
Replying to Anton Oosthuizen
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Luis
You might not like or agree with my opinion and that is certainly your prerogative. Make me think of Patton's famous quote - "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking". Who knows maybe I don't want to be the one not thinking :)
But you are right, no matter how old something might be, we do not always practice it so maybe rebranding old things as new is a good way of getting us to think about what we should be doing all along.
Dear Anton
I have been trying for many years to practice Stephen Covey's public victory habits:
- Think win-win
- Seek first to understand, then to be understood
- Synergize
I accept, respect, understand that there are different opinions from mine.
I always try to develop empathy.
My question is an attempt to understand what is behind your approach (not in content but in form)
I would like you to tell me in the field of management (which includes project management) about some theory or approach that is innovative Saving Changes...
Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dec 01, 2019 7:36 PM
Replying to Stéphane Parent
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It sounds like yet another life cycle (YALF), Luis.
Dear Stéphane:
Thanks for your comment
Does YALF mean the same thing I'm thinking? (Young Aspirants Leadership Fellowship) :-)
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1 reply by Stéphane Parent
Dec 02, 2019 6:30 AM
Stéphane Parent
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Suuuuure, Luis.
Saving Changes...
Stéphane ParentSelf Employed / Semi-retired| Leader MakerPrince Edward Island, Canada
Dec 02, 2019 4:33 AM
Replying to Luis Branco
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Dear Stéphane:
Thanks for your comment
Does YALF mean the same thing I'm thinking? (Young Aspirants Leadership Fellowship) :-)
Suuuuure, Luis.
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1 reply by Luis Branco
Dec 02, 2019 7:08 AM
Luis Branco
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Dear Stephane
You made me smile :-)
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Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dec 02, 2019 6:30 AM
Replying to Stéphane Parent
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Suuuuure, Luis.
Dear Stephane
You made me smile :-) Saving Changes...
PETER MELLOProject Management Consultant| BrScanBrasilia, Distrito Federal, Brazil
Yes, I heard of Project Model Canvas from Professor Finnochio, Project Canvas from somebody I do not recall, Project Design Canvas from Prof. Wankes and dozens of variations.
I love my long and detail plans for the projects I manage, but I am aware most people will not read, or follow or even understand sometimes. Visual canvas is really an incredible way of getting people to think closer to each other, understand better what to expect and then it is a great way of starting a project, building or revising a Project Charter.
For some projects it can be all it takes to put people working together with a common goal, but it cannot be the full plan as suggested by some authors to any reasonable larger project.
No, it is not the kanban as suggested by a few readers, but it is a great start for defining high level deliveries that later may be developed with agile approaches and kanbans.
I find the cards amazing and the participation of people around it; but I do not aggree that it must be on paper. I then created my own software for creating, improving, adjusting canvas models to different approaches in a couple of customers and later I also added kanban features to it, so - by mixing (C)anvas and (K)anban, I launched kanvas.cards - a collaborative space for using canvas or kanbans.
I run the kanvas to several parts of my projects and by gathering people around it, we get to understand things that would normally take a long time to become visible. One time I was at a customer and we ran the kanvas with his team of developers that were working in the same project for a year. In four hours of discussions around the kanvas, they figure out lots of points in which a few of them had complete opposite ideas of what the final product would actually be!
So, it is not the final planning tool, but it is an incredible tool to get people looking towards the same goals. And it works for defining a business, a strategy, a project and even to design an innovative product. Saving Changes...
