saurabh mahajanPMP, ITIL, PRINCE2| vodafonePune, Maharashtra, India
Project Management is seen as a niche skill which has more or less same approach, tool & techniques in different industries (like IT, Construction, Manufacturing, etc). However, Culture in different countries do affect this baseline of project management, the way we apply PM knowledge.
Have any of you faced such cultural difference and how did that impacted your project management skills. ? Saving Changes...
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Ive always faced cultural differences as Ive been deployed in many countries but it never affected my PM skills. It might affect some of the organization approches but not the project management itself. Risk might increase, HR issues might be different but I also can't think of any reason which might affect PM Skills in case of cultural differences. It might be useful if you give us an example if this is something that has happened to you. Saving Changes...
saurabh mahajanPMP, ITIL, PRINCE2| vodafonePune, Maharashtra, India
Thanks Rami for your inputs.
Sorry for not being clear in my question.
However, what I meant was like working with people who has different culture (personal and professional) than your's, how does that has impacted your PM activities. Did you had to alter your approach towards project success ? Did you some new things along with defined PM approaches ?
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1 reply by Rami Kaibni
Feb 11, 2016 3:06 AM
Rami Kaibni
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Got you now ... Well, because part of project success that I usually had to deal with for many years was multi-cultural environment so nothing really changes and PM Practice as well tells you theoretically how to deal with these situations.
However, based on the situation, you tailor the communication plan and manage the stakeholders accordingly. It is a matter of how to tailor the processes more than it is an impact.
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Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
One thing is culture and the other organizational culture. With that said only some component inside the project management process is impacted. From more than 20 years ago I am working in multi-cultural, multi-country project with highly distributed teams around the world located in USA, Latin America, Central America, Europe, Asia. The process I found is impacted are Project Communication and Project Stakeholder Management. The other process, with exception on goverment regulations, I did not find are impacted by culture. Saving Changes...
Andy KaufmanHost| People and Projects PodcastLake Zurich, Il, United States
That's a great question, Saurabh! Culture influences nearly everything we do as leaders. That includes, as Sergio notes, culture in terms of country/ethnicity as well as organizational culture.
A while back I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Ed Schein. He's the guy credited with coining the term "organizational culture". I took many important lessons away, including a better idea of what the components of culture are. If you're interested in hearing it in his own words, you can hear Dr. Schein discuss this at:
http://PeopleAndProjectsPodcast.com/25 Saving Changes...
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten AssociatesNew Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Feb 10, 2016 3:27 AM
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Thanks Rami for your inputs.
Sorry for not being clear in my question.
However, what I meant was like working with people who has different culture (personal and professional) than your's, how does that has impacted your PM activities. Did you had to alter your approach towards project success ? Did you some new things along with defined PM approaches ?
Got you now ... Well, because part of project success that I usually had to deal with for many years was multi-cultural environment so nothing really changes and PM Practice as well tells you theoretically how to deal with these situations.
However, based on the situation, you tailor the communication plan and manage the stakeholders accordingly. It is a matter of how to tailor the processes more than it is an impact. Saving Changes...
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