Projects
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All
work is becoming project work
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Many
still hold the perspective that projects are linear, controllable or mechanical
processes. Some are, but most projects
are not.
v Successful complex, muti-stakeholder projects
take on a “life of their own”, become agile and self-organizing to
produce maximum results in changing environments.
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Project leadership must develop the awareness to
see what is happening in the project and its ecosystem. Projects go through energy and productivity
cycles.
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No leader or team can see everything, so engaging
all involved at key points is necessary.
Getting the whole system in the room increases intelligence and
effective decision making.
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Strategic
leadership must develop new perspectives and often utilizes external resources
at appropriate times to facilitate the next steps in the journey to a
successful project.
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I have worked with change leaders and their teams
on complex projects to develop effective strategies and events to engage
stakeholders and communities of interest at critical points in the
project’s life-cycle.
I have facilitated key
events, with teams and stakeholders, at different points in a projects life
cycle. Conception, team development,
stakeholder interaction, the loss of momentum and energy and learning from
experience are among those points when external facilitation can assist success. Open Space Technology can be a “Project
Accelerator”. It can engage
the leadership of those who have a stake in the outcomes or help the project
team find its way through a difficult issue.
See the article “Living Projects” for some perspectives on
our changing view of successful projects.
One project has been to
shift to the use of a call centre for initial information on financial services. The speed of peoples lives and their over
commitment to other projects meant that holding an event with key stakeholders
was the best way to initially determine what might be the Frequently Asked
Questions and where the answers could be found.
The very successful event gave a substantial boost to the project and
the call centre. This was again done
with Starfield Consulting, where we have
explored together the kinds of perspectives and approaches required to develop
truly organic project management.
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