You don’t need to tell people how they should interact. If they have an opportunity to self-organize, all will be fine. Some say. No. No. You need rules that describe how people should interact. Otherwise things will be a mess. If everyone is just doing what they please, we’ll get chaos. Some say. Is interaction …
Do you remember last years “The Four Dharmas Of Project Management“? “I learned that you cannot jump from the PMBoK directly to topics like “mental flexibility” and “emotional intelligence”. I am sorry to tell you, but most people cannot make that jump that fast. A path to “project enlightenment” has to be defined. Conveniently, I …
In the remaining months of this year I have some exciting speaking engagements coming up (stay tuned for updates). Here is the slidedeck for one of them: The End Of The Human Cannonball: Project Leadership In Today’s World. The End Of The Human Cannonball: Project Leadership In Today's World View more presentations from Bas de …
Today’s (virtual) teams have yet to realize their full potential. They could learn a lot from Mother Nature’s teams. In episode 30 of The Project Shrink I am talking to Ken Thompson about “Bioteams”. Ken has used lessons from nature to provide us with insights and techniques on how to run teams more effective. In …
“All this talking about self-organization, complex systems and other fuzzy wuzzy stuff. HOW DO I USE THIS IN A REAL PROJECT?” Fair enough. It is the same question I have. In this post I will outline my idea for a technique that combines the notion of a project as human system working towards a desired …