Tag: project management

W przeszłości praca wymagała od nas siły mięśni. Aktualnie wymaga od nas intelektu. Ale nadchodzi era, w której praca będzie wymagać od nas serca.

When I look at newspapers, I come across a lot of failed projects and these are not only waterfall projects. In the Netherlands I have seen agile projects that were stopped after spending more than €200 million. The Standish Group1 presented figures showing that 60% of agile projects were challenged or failed. First figures of a benchmark showed that 30% of agile projects are more expensive than traditional software development (A more detailed study is now running in the Netherlands).

Zmiana w systemach społecznych i gospodarczych towarzyszy nam od wieków. Heraklit w V wieku p.ne. opisał zmiany stwierdzeniem „nie można wejść dwa razy do tej samej rzeki”, zaś Marek Aureliusz (w II wieku n.e.) pisał, że „Życie to zmiana, a świat to wyobrażenie”. W XXI wieku zmiany nabrały szaleńczego wręcz tempa, a dodatkowo system wokół nas staje się coraz bardziej złożony.

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.

Szkolenia, a szczególnie szkolenia z zarządzania projektami to według Ciebie wydatek czy inwestycja? Tak – odpowiesz – to podobne pytanie jak o zklankę, czy jest pełna czy pusta. A co powie realista? Powie, że szklanka jest o połowę za duża. Tak samo jest ze szkoleniami, zawsze jest o połowę za dużo potrzeb w stosunku do budżetu.