By Ali Anani and Bas de Baar In our previous article we painted the image of people walking on the OODA highway, continuously performing OODA loops, interacting with the environment, in the search for information packages that help them adapt to changes. In this posting we want to extend this notion to the use of …
Earlier this month Ted.com published a presentation by Howard Rheingold called “Way-New Collaboration“. He talks about how the old paradigm of command-control is being replaced by Way-New Collaboration. He connects his story with social dilemma’s like Prisoners Dilemma and Tragedy of the Commons. This is the best presentation I’ve seen that is telling the story …
Whatever your take is on projects, at the end of the day it is just a bunch of people working together to achieve a certain goal. During this endeavor to laugh, cry, pull pranks, play dirty tricks and have all other kind of behavior towards each other. If you are lucky they even work to …
This is a repost of the original Project Sociology article/video. In the first episode of this series I used a very simplified model of how stakeholder behavior is determined: Stakeholders have needs Based upon there needs and their perception of project reality they will choose a strategy that benefits them most. The execution of this …
This is a repost of the original Project Sociology article/video. I removed the old one a while ag o oops. In this first episode I will discuss how project people look at each other to measure them selves. Projects are all about people. Its the human element that determines the success or failure of this …