This is a guest post by Andrew Sparks. Find out more about Andrew at the end of this post. What does a well-run project sound like? Generically we speak of successful, high-performance projects (or factories or other team operations) as “humming” or “ticking like a Swiss watch”. Every successful project I have ever seen has …
This is the final post in my series about using systems thinking for analyzing problems in projects. 1. Systems Thinking: A Technique To Find Project Problems 2. Systems Thinking: Looking For Causal Loops 3. Shifting The Burden And Fixes That Backfire – Archetypes Part 1 4. Limits To Growth And Tragedy Of The Commons – …
As a Project leader you are dumped in an organization you have never seen before. You get people assigned you don’t know. The organization prescribes methods and tools you don’t like. And of course, there are a gazillion of unwritten rules. Welcome to your project life. You run on partial Information, partial Influence and partial …
How do you get your team to do the right thing? To adopt agile practices? To go the extra mile? To be on time for meetings? To produce polished products? You can be on the lookout for the latest techniques. You can put your hopes in the most hyped up tools. You can always search …
This is the fourth post in my series about using systems thinking for analyzing problems in projects. I recommend you read the previous posts before diving head first into this post. Archetypes can be considered as stereotypes of problematic situations. When analyzing a situation they are the standard patterns you look for. In this post …