Raja SekharAVP| Jade GlobalFremont, Ca, United States
With the current trends of lean teams, project management aspect is also required to be lean, does anyone have critical few PM deliverables Checklist ? Saving Changes...
It really depends on the complexity of a project and your organization's standards and policies for project management.
Rather than being document-centric, a leaner approach is to be information-centric. Leverging some type of collaborative information repository to capture critical project information will cut down on redundant (and potentially conflicting) info. Aspire for the enter once, use many objective!
From a bare minimum perspective, you'd want a charter, something to reflect what the team is approved to deliver (reflecting all main constraints), something to track actuals, and something to provide performance reporting. Combine that with a RAID log and a formal closeout record and you are good to go.
Kiron
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1 reply by Raja Sekhar
Dec 02, 2017 12:21 PM
Raja Sekhar
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Yes Kiron, One of the biggest challenges are deal with in consulting business is customers really challenge project management effort especially on smaller size projects (typically less than 3 months). Without making it too much burdensome for the team and customer, I was looking in this community to see if anyone has already addressed this challenge. Perhaps, categorize the projects in certain way (eg., duration, effort, impact, team size) and then list of certain PM deliverables applicable.
Hmm I don't think project management needs to be lean. Processes, product development or production etc. may need to be lean.
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1 reply by Kiron Bondale
Dec 01, 2017 8:02 AM
Kiron Bondale
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Sante -
the rationale for leaning out PM relates not to the profession or discipline, but the unfortunate "one size fits all" nature of the methodologies used by organizations. For example, a Charter template might have been developed with a large, complex project in mind, but will not fit the needs of a small, low complexity project. Similarly, governance processes might have been constructed based on the worst case rather than the happy path.
With a bit of creativity, we can usually find all eight types of waste in PM practices.
Kiron
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Sromon DasSenior Project Manager| Mara ConsultingHalifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
There's a brilliant webinar on lean project management by Norbert Majerus- he provides case studies from Goodyear tires. Worth watching.
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Hmm I don't think project management needs to be lean. Processes, product development or production etc. may need to be lean.
Sante -
the rationale for leaning out PM relates not to the profession or discipline, but the unfortunate "one size fits all" nature of the methodologies used by organizations. For example, a Charter template might have been developed with a large, complex project in mind, but will not fit the needs of a small, low complexity project. Similarly, governance processes might have been constructed based on the worst case rather than the happy path.
With a bit of creativity, we can usually find all eight types of waste in PM practices.
Kiron
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1 reply by Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
Dec 01, 2017 5:46 PM
Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD
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Yes I have seen some document/process top-heavy projects relative to their size, which produced more work than was necessary. In these situations the process needs to be lean.
the rationale for leaning out PM relates not to the profession or discipline, but the unfortunate "one size fits all" nature of the methodologies used by organizations. For example, a Charter template might have been developed with a large, complex project in mind, but will not fit the needs of a small, low complexity project. Similarly, governance processes might have been constructed based on the worst case rather than the happy path.
With a bit of creativity, we can usually find all eight types of waste in PM practices.
Kiron
Yes I have seen some document/process top-heavy projects relative to their size, which produced more work than was necessary. In these situations the process needs to be lean. Saving Changes...
Raja SekharAVP| Jade GlobalFremont, Ca, United States
Nov 30, 2017 8:35 AM
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Raja -
It really depends on the complexity of a project and your organization's standards and policies for project management.
Rather than being document-centric, a leaner approach is to be information-centric. Leverging some type of collaborative information repository to capture critical project information will cut down on redundant (and potentially conflicting) info. Aspire for the enter once, use many objective!
From a bare minimum perspective, you'd want a charter, something to reflect what the team is approved to deliver (reflecting all main constraints), something to track actuals, and something to provide performance reporting. Combine that with a RAID log and a formal closeout record and you are good to go.
Kiron
Yes Kiron, One of the biggest challenges are deal with in consulting business is customers really challenge project management effort especially on smaller size projects (typically less than 3 months). Without making it too much burdensome for the team and customer, I was looking in this community to see if anyone has already addressed this challenge. Perhaps, categorize the projects in certain way (eg., duration, effort, impact, team size) and then list of certain PM deliverables applicable.
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1 reply by Kiron Bondale
Dec 02, 2017 1:10 PM
Kiron Bondale
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Raja -
Complexity-driven project management governance & practice tailoring is the key to help novice or intermediate PMs to hit the "right" level of rigor based on the needs of a given project.
Yes Kiron, One of the biggest challenges are deal with in consulting business is customers really challenge project management effort especially on smaller size projects (typically less than 3 months). Without making it too much burdensome for the team and customer, I was looking in this community to see if anyone has already addressed this challenge. Perhaps, categorize the projects in certain way (eg., duration, effort, impact, team size) and then list of certain PM deliverables applicable.
Raja -
Complexity-driven project management governance & practice tailoring is the key to help novice or intermediate PMs to hit the "right" level of rigor based on the needs of a given project.
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