Frinday in Charleston
Yesterday I made a presentation at the PMI Charleston Chapter. It has been a couple of years since I had been to a Charleston Chapter meeting and I ended up at the wrong place. A short call to Nicole got me to the right meeting location well before the meeting start. It was great catching up with some old friends. (the friendship was enduring, not that the people were old)
I talked about one of my favorite topics; profiling projects (you thought I was going to say ME).
Although this is a personal blog I do try to add something about project management. Below is the outline I started with as I prepared the presentation. I stretched and talked about research and our profession.
Heading down to the beach
Russ
1. Five Assumptions
a. Project by definition are unique
b. Projects also have common characteristics (each has a scope, schedule, etc)
c. These project characteristics can be grouped into project types or profile
d. There is a management approach that is appropriate for each project profile
e. The application of the appropriate management approach, tools and skills will have a positive impact on project performance
2. Project profiling history
a. PMI Taxonomy Project with Gregory D. Githens
b. Crawford, Hobbs & Turner, PMI Initiatives
c. Aaron Shenar
d. Robert Yonker
e. Ruth House
f. Construction Industry Institute Project Definition Rating Index (2010)
g. Stretton, (2011)
h. Stacy Goff
3. Darnall Preston Project Complexity Index (DPCI)
a. DPCI Overview
i. Project Complexity, Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS)
ii. Stress Points
iii. Gathering Data
b. External Dimension
i. Size
ii. Duration
iii. Resource Availability
c. Internal Dimension
i. Clarity of Objectives
ii. Clarity of Scope
iii. Organizational Complexity
iv. Stakeholder Agreement
d. Technological Complexity
e. Project Environment
i. Ecology
ii. Cultural Complexity
iii. Legal Complexity
4. Implication of Project Profile for Execution Approach
a. Leaderships: styles, knowledge skills abilities.
i. Myers Briggs
ii. Emotional Intelligence
iii. Project Organization/ Span of Control
iv. Project Lifecycles
b. Alignment
i. Common Understanding
ii. Means and Methods
iii. Trust
c. Use of Goals
d. Schedule development and control, use of milestones
e. Cost estimating and control
f. Risk analysis and mitigation
g. Quality defining and managing
h. Scope development and control
i. Team building, managing
j. Communication plan, processes
i. Listening
k. Managing client expectation
l. Measurement
m. Project culture
5. Conclusions
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