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Welcome in StoàLeading Business School in the South
The Northern Secrets of the Vikings:
• Exploring (innovating)• Agility of teams (seamanship)• Bringing the key people together
in a team (teamship)• Managing stakeholders
(governance)
Three Stages of Project Management Practices
DO
FIRST STAGE
? YEARS AGO
PMBoK
STANDARDIZE
SECOND STAGE25 YEARS AGO
REFLECT
THIRD STAGE
TODAY
Are Project Management techniques good for exploring?
?
Are Projects as “agile” as Viking Ships?
Project Management as a storytelling practice
• A project is a story told in “future perfect tense”
• In order to– generate a coherent story about the future.– Assess ex ante the performance in each
stage without appropriate KPI’s and benchmarks (generally based on past experience)
– Motivate teams to action
Actions and behaviours
• Without a project there would be no action, only behaviour.
• When actors decide to implement a project they become equipped with “in-order-to”motivations
• action is designed and taken “in order to” realize the projected future state.
The story of a banquet
• I will have been happy and fulfilled
• The Prince will have been satisfied
• The banquet will have been great
• The seafood will have been fresh
• The food will have been delivered on time
• The seafood menu will have been special and exciting
• The requirements of the Prince will have been fully understood
The story of a banquet
