“Oh yeah, by the way, you need to tailor this to the situation. You don’t need everything. Sort of. Kinda. We guess.”

Hate it. Hate it.

People put labels on methods. They give it a name. We need to categorize everything just to make sense of the world.

If you call things Agile, Lean, Traditional, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 54.8, ISO77658, your audience already has a lot of assumptions. Even without knowing the background, the problems addressed and the circumstances for its use.

That’s cool. That’s natural.

Descriptions and labels make it difficult to know what a method or technique is about. Let alone being able to use it with the right intent.

This becomes obviously hard when you try to mix and match approaches. You need to find essences and compare stuff.

It sounds like fun.

At least, that is what Dave Prior and I thought.

So, we started a new podcast, called Project Potion. Meshing Up Projects.

We talk about different approaches, topics and techniques, put them in a blender and see what comes out.

We never know.

But we learn. A lot.

We hope you do to.

Bas de Baar helps people find ways to enjoy the diversity of human interaction in their organizations so that they can get out of their own way and achieve their goals. - Project Potion. Meshing Up Projects. is a post from: Project Shrink.

Here is the slidedeck for one of them: The End Of The Human Cannonball: Project Leadership In Today’s World.

“Sometimes you end up doing everything in your project yourself. You become the center of control. But sometimes changes happen so fast, it’s hard to keep up and in control. It seems lately “sometimes” is more often then we would like.

In this presentation he will present the alignment of goals and approaches between organization, project and individuals as the central task of a Project Leader.”

Bas de Baar helps people find ways to enjoy the diversity of human interaction in their organizations so that they can get out of their own way and achieve their goals. - The End Of The Human Cannonball: Project Leadership In Today’s World is a post from: Project Shrink.

I recommend reading the entire series. It is interesting to read different perspectives from great people: Shawn Futterer, Jurgen Appelo, Glen Alleman, Josh Nankivel, Steven Levy and Elizabeth Harrin.

My own answers illustrate how I prefer to stick as close to the dominant approach in the organization as possible, and prefer “small” methods as they are easier to explain.

“In principle I would work with whatever method is dominant in an organization. Just have to make sure that they are really working Prince-2 and not some Prince in Name only scheme. Start with a workshop to align everyone’s perspective on what it means running under Prince-2.”

Bas de Baar helps people find ways to enjoy the diversity of human interaction in their organizations so that they can get out of their own way and achieve their goals. - What Is Your Project Management Approach Under These Circumstances? is a post from: Project Shrink.