Tailoring a methodology involves the availability of some good fabric. Using internet and weaving home-made stuff for making nice canvasses where plans are designed does not sound reasonable. With the same logic, the supposition: “one size fits all” is a futile, if not dangerous, attempt of standardizing that has not properly investigated; it sounds like to order heavy boots and hard hats to acrobats for the sake of the standard safety [...]
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Working on templates requires a certain dose of system-centric attitude. However, tools are built for being used by colleagues. This means that every instrument (with its set of rules) fits with the others, this to form an elastic structure that allows any user (producer or consumer) to find his/her hand with the [...] In these days, I am busy with the building of a system for supporting the PMO via web. In this phase, most of the job consists in the preparation of “standard” templates. They represent the iceberg’s tip; however, the templates are tangible things that will be delivered to the PM. Their acceptance will make a [...] Prince2 templates: Today I have added/updated three more documents: Communication plan Hopefully in the next days I will be able to update the main page for explaning the new strategy. Some interesting hindsights: It is interesting to confront these three posts: Building A Better Project Grapevine While the first gives a good overview of what [...] A slide rule When the project involves different countries (either for production or implementation) the richness of different cultures is a huge capital that offers some challenges. Some of them are of logistical nature and could hamper communications. Assuming the same mindset When the project is completed within the same geographical area (city) and most of the [...] Symbols are powerful communication tools What can “Lean Management” offer for improving communication? It would be a pretension to present myself as a “lean” expert. My knowledge and experience on this subject is at its very beginning, after a long period of bafflement. My doubts were focused on the difficulties of translating principles conceived for the [...] The use of templates help us in the process of delivering correctly the information within a standard frame. Like armors, they have grown in weight until our “freedom of movements” are limited. It is time to think again the (meta) structure of our written [...] |
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