diane dromgold - agms las vegas 28th feb 2011
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The powerpoint document of the paper which I presented on 28th February at the AGMS International Conference in Las Vegas.TRANSCRIPT
Project Management – Contemporary Issues – Contemporary answers – Generation Y
AGMS ConferenceLas Vegas 28th February 2011
Diane DromgoldManaging Director
RNC Global Projects
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There are only two things going on
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Delivering today’s goals
Working on tomorrow’s
Business as Usual (BAU) Projects
Time was……
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When BAU and Projects were separate
but…….
Project team
The times they are a changin’
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In organisations and projects
The organization chart -we’re still ‘doin it
Boss
Operations Support Project
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Reality – it’s messy
Strategy Product Market’g Finance HR IT OPS Manu’gBAU
The projects
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Legal/compliance
ClientsSales
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Tug-of-war for ‘share of effort’
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But in Project Management -the fantasy persists (reality ignored)
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What people see
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Big job – get to it!
How they respond –’what will I do’?
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What happens?
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Each person decides what they will work on and when.
Organisations have delegated ‘share of effort decisions’ to the individual
and project control is an illusion:
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Credibility
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It’s project management that’s seen to fail
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Threat or opportunity
Problem or solution?
And then came Generation Y
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Psychology
They’re not that different
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Please - make it about ME
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The Management Gap it’s not just a project issue, and
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the race is on
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Please - make it about ME(Project management can bridge the gap and be
at the centre of the future)
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The future
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Or, the past
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If the future – what next?
Focus project management research and study on the bigger question of organisational achievement and away from more and better ways to track progress (we’re pretty much covered there).
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