People get together to accomplish things. Starting a movement to create a change in law. Developers and designers working together to implement a new system into an organization. They get together. Accomplish stuff. And split up. A group is created. Their thing is done. A group is dissolved. They are all on a Big Adventure. …
By pushing the boundaries on looking at what projects are, how they operate, why they operate the way they do, experiencing how they get affected by changes in technology and society and other areas provides me knowledge about not only where we may be heading, but also what to think about current practices.
Two years ago I wrote a series of posts together with dr Ali Anani about The Fish Pond Metaphor. This series is now available in an ebook format. The Fish Pond Metaphor: Complexity of Management.
“Planning and implementing organizational systems and practices to manage people so that the potential advantages of diversity are maximized while its potential disadvantages are minimized” (Cultural Diversity in Organization by Taylor H. Cox)
Projects are about humans. Deal with that! And when dealing, it’s a project manager’s flexibility that comes in most handy since not only does mental agility ensure you keep yourself actively thinking, using those grey cells, it means you have the resilience to adapt to the only constant in life… change.