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Yoga and the Art of Post-Yoga and the Art of Post-Modern ManagementModern Management@yogacat, 2014@yogacat, 2014
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Namaste
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Who am I?
• Ly nn My ric k , a k a @ y oga c a t1 3• Co -fou nd e r of Ag ile E nv ironm e nt• 2 0+ y e a rs of m a na g ing a nd le a rn ing• Pa s s iona te a b ou t he lp ing te a m s work
b e tte r toge the r!• Fou nd e d the Lond on Com m s D ojo
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Why Yoga?
• I’m pretty good at yoga. I’m not an expert, as there is always more to learn, and it is a lifelong undertaking to learn. I have seen some positive results with my practice of yoga, though these were not always the results I had expected. Yoga can be moulded to suit the practitioner, who in turn evolves and grows in their practice, never perfecting, but always improving in their yoga practice.
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PM vs Yoga
• Business Practice• Tool for Delivery• Ceremonies and
Artefacts• Certifications
• Spiritual Practice• Exercise• Asanas and
sequences• Certifications
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PM certifications
• PRINCE2 (3 levels of certificate)• Association for Project Management (5 separate
certifications)• Project Management Institute (8 separate certifications)• International Project Management Association (IPMA) • Agile Project Management certificates are starting to
appear as well.
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Yoga certifications?
• Generally needed only to teach, not to practice• Many of them - One for each “brand”• They're honest about it though: in a recent New
Yorker article, the author describes his yoga studio's owner's car licence plate
• NAMA$TE
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PM Failure Modes
• Over-control• “Going Through the Motions”• Working the Plan and Managing the Risk
• Can yoga provide insight into how we can improve?
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Over-Control
• The Deming Funnel Experiment• “Trying to deterministically compensate for a
random process is counter-productive, but -- according to Deming -- quite a popular pastime”
• There will be events that afect you over which you have no control
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What does it look like?
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Yoga says . . .
• Trying to achieve the perfect asana is not the goal
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“Going through the Motions”
• For every project, you prepare a set number and type of documents and artefacts
• You collect data, because, well, you should, right?
• You do the minimum required not to get fired
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Yoga says . . .
• Trying to achieve the pose without understanding the goal or preparing properly risks injury
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Working the Plan and Managing the Risk
• You have a Gantt Chart exists that says exactly what everyone will do and when they will do it and how long it will take.
• You have a Risk Register, and you've thought of every possible thing that could go wrong and have a foolproof plan to fix it.
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Yoga says . . .
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Your new Project Management goal?
• Work to achieve a state of fexible, relaxed strength – be a management warrior!
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NamasteNamaste
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