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Over the next decade, today’s connected world will be explosively more connected. Anything that can be distributed will be distributed: workforces, organizations, supply webs, and more. The tired practices of centralized organizations will become brittle in a future where authority is radically decentralized. Rigid hierarchies will give way to liquid structures. Most leaders – and most organizations – aren’t ready for this future.

You are on the phone, stuck in a report meeting already exceeding the scheduled timeframe, listening to your Customer’s comments about monthly results and thinking on the next meeting round starting in the sequence. As if all that weren’t enough, new instant messages pop on your screen: it is asking you to provide yet another “as soon as possible” actions to the project stakeholders. Sounds familiar to you? I guess so.

Someone has told me recently that the word “project management” has become quite a confusing word as we have begun to overuse or even sometimes misuse it. We seem to convert everything into a pro­ject and then “manage” it. If we know so much about project management, as it appears from talking with colleagues and peers – why would we need to add a lead­ership layer on top of that and what for? After all, if we apply knowledge and best practices from project management, and see our project success rates improve, wouldn’t this suffice? As a seasoned management consultant, I would say – it mostly depends on what one is trying to achieve.

Scrum i Kanban to bardzo popularne metody zarządzania zadaniami. Coraz więcej firm wdraża zwinne metodyki podczas pracy projektowej. Scrum już od dłuższego czasu wiedzie prym wśród firm z branży IT. Wprawdzie wiele organizacji chwali się efektywnym stosowaniem tego podejścia w swoich projektach, natomiast rzeczywistość nie pozostawia żadnych złudzeń. Wiele z nich ma poważne problemy z wdrożeniem wszystkich aspektów Scrum.