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The Next Paradigm in Project Management

The Next Paradigm in Project Management. Who Am I?. A Business Leadership Coach 25 years of global business experience managing projects in the Software Industry. Technology doesn’t matter as much as coordinating the efforts of the people or the teams.

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The Next Paradigm in Project Management

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  1. The Next Paradigm in Project Management

  2. Who Am I? • A Business Leadership Coach • 25 years of global business experience managing projects in the Software Industry. • Technology doesn’t matter as much as coordinating the efforts of the people or the teams. • What I do: Help businesses improve their business results through learning, process optimization, and technology. • Concentration: • Attitudes and Behaviors • Organization Development • Individual Development (Coaching) • Process Optimization

  3. Who Are You? • Name • What do you do? • What changes do you see going on in the field of Project Management? • What issues are you having with Project Management that you would like to see addressed?

  4. What is Project Management?

  5. Major Forces Affecting Project Management • Accelerating Change • Requirements change faster than we can complete the work. • Rising Complexity • The work we do is more complex with increased interdependencies. • Distributed Workforces • Work teams are scattered across the globe. • Need to Increase Responsiveness • Increased choices mean we need to respond faster to earn the loyalty of our customers.

  6. Similar to Software Engineering in 1990’s • Software Shifted from Structured Programming • Top-down, hierarchical, and functional breakdown of work to be done. • Coordination through function calls – commands for tasks to be done. • To Object-Oriented Programming • Personification, encapsulation, inheritance, re-use • Coordination through published methods – protocol where we make requests of an object to take responsibility for action upon itself.

  7. Project Manager: The Paradigm Shift • From the Sheep-dog keeping everyone on the “Happy Path.” • Nipping at everyone’s heels to keep them on time. • Need to know the details of everyone’s work to pull it all together. • To a Manager of Commitments (Promises). • Conversations for Action • More responsibility is distributed the Performers to satisfy the Customer. • More emphasis on responsibility, integrity, trustworthiness.

  8. Conversations For Action Acknowledge Request  Negotiate  Conditions of Satisfaction Requirements Performer Customer Complete Commitment Satisfies Conditions of Satisfaction?  Test Customer Satisfaction  Perform Work Declare Complete From: Understanding Computers and Cognition, Terry Winograd & Fernando Flores

  9. Project Two Ways of Moving a Project Forward Vision

  10. The Impact of this Paradigm Shift • In addition to all of the same technical skills – successful project management will require: • development of additional leadership skills. • development of additional people skills.

  11. A Great Leader is:

  12. A Leadership Development Crisis: • How do we develop the leadership behavior we need to meet the demands of this new era? • Can’t be learned from a book – leadership is learned through practice over time and receiving feedback. • It isn’t currently taught in traditional forms of education.

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