Some sentences ‘picked-up’ during sessions of first day in the “Gartner PPM (Program and Portfolio Management) and IT Governance Summit 2010”, in London:
- Anyone can read the PMBOK. Not everyone can lead a project
- A project represents an investment of the organization to make a change
- Negative people have a problem for every solution
- We are going from triple inner restrictions in Project Management (Time, Cost and Scope) to five-restrictions: Time, Cost, Scope, Innovation and Sustainability
- Future Project Manager skill base: Technical Foundation + Leadership Skills + Strategy/Business Management
- Stakeholder is any group or individual that can affect, or is affected, by a particular work effort
- When you find yuorself in a hole, stop digging
- Only when you can ‘see’ value, are you able to tell what is waste and then start to get rid of it
- Value is created in 3 ways: Product Development, Information Management and Physical transformation/service delivery
- The Lean ‘revelation’: if you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem
Some recommedation, from Gartner analysts, in order to be prepared for a changing future, as a project/program/portfolio managers:
- Develop a strong knowledge of some aspects of the business
- Develop the skills necessary to deliver results
- Improve either:
- Your change management skills
- Your knowledge management skills
- Your contract management skills
- Your portfolio management skills
- Your program management skills
- How do you eat an elephant? One bit at a time
I hope you will enjoy them!
