Which one contributes more positively to your project success generally?
Keeping this as open-ended, love to hear your experience and insights!
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Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
First thing is to understand: is not my project. Second thing is to put clear the project objectives at the very begining becuase those are the meassures for project success, at least in the projects/programs where I am assigned to.
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1 reply by Suzi MS
Dec 03, 2019 6:39 PM
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Thank you Sergio, everyone would love to be in your project I’m sure! I find clarity is one of main challenges in mature and large organisations.
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Luis BrancoCEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, LdªCarcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dear Susi
Interesting your question
Thanks for sharing
How do you manage your projects?
Based on facts?
Or do you also listen to the noises?
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Could you define what you mean by "Noises" as usually when we use the term "Signal:Noise Ratio", the second part of the ratio is a distractor at best and a blocker at worst?
Kiron
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Dec 03, 2019 6:53 PM
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Hi Kiron, thank you for pointing out, am trying understand from perspectives other than box standard/dictionary definition, both terms and usage can become subjective from one organisation to another. Just like what you mentioned, it would be very interesting if you can elaborate more of those usage/concepts with us here!
Thank you
First thing is to understand: is not my project. Second thing is to put clear the project objectives at the very begining becuase those are the meassures for project success, at least in the projects/programs where I am assigned to.
Thank you Sergio, everyone would love to be in your project I’m sure! I find clarity is one of main challenges in mature and large organisations.
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Dec 04, 2019 4:54 AM
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You are welcome. Just to comment, I am working in a large organization but if you ask me is not mature on project management. The point is: is dificult to find a place where needed authority is giving to the project manager. So, the project manager must get the authority by themself. How to do that? Helping all the stakeholders to understand the groundrules in the framework of defined project management process from the very begining. That´s will eliminate noise. For example, I saw lot of project objectives totally incorrect (for example, thanks´s the project we will grow 5% on market share this year"). If you accept that then you are lost from the first step. Is that behavor or way of working easy? Not at all. But in my case that keep me alive along the years.
Could you define what you mean by "Noises" as usually when we use the term "Signal:Noise Ratio", the second part of the ratio is a distractor at best and a blocker at worst?
Kiron
Hi Kiron, thank you for pointing out, am trying understand from perspectives other than box standard/dictionary definition, both terms and usage can become subjective from one organisation to another. Just like what you mentioned, it would be very interesting if you can elaborate more of those usage/concepts with us here!
Thank you Saving Changes...
Anton OosthuizenSenior Business Analyst / Project Manager| Self EmployedPretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
I would say that a signal is more important but we cannot ignore the noise as it might sometime augment the signal, giving us more data to make a good decision. Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
Dec 03, 2019 6:39 PM
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Thank you Sergio, everyone would love to be in your project I’m sure! I find clarity is one of main challenges in mature and large organisations.
You are welcome. Just to comment, I am working in a large organization but if you ask me is not mature on project management. The point is: is dificult to find a place where needed authority is giving to the project manager. So, the project manager must get the authority by themself. How to do that? Helping all the stakeholders to understand the groundrules in the framework of defined project management process from the very begining. That´s will eliminate noise. For example, I saw lot of project objectives totally incorrect (for example, thanks´s the project we will grow 5% on market share this year"). If you accept that then you are lost from the first step. Is that behavor or way of working easy? Not at all. But in my case that keep me alive along the years. Saving Changes...
Thomas WalentaGlobal Project Economy ExpertHackenheim, Germany
If you have sufficient signals (facts), it is easy to be successful, we all strive for that.
Reality is though, that we need to make more decisions without sufficient facts, parameters are changing more quickly and change become more profound (disruptive). Call it VUCA, I call it insecurity.
This insecurity is earlier visible in the noise. In order to be successful you have to interpret the noise, which means sensing the project environment, engaging with stakeholders, adapting to changed parameters. Saving Changes...
