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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• Diane Dromgold• RNC Global Projects• ddromgold@rncglobal.com• 1 877 755 2633

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