Why Mo Mowlam?
5. She was a conduit for peace
4. She wore a wig with dignity
3. She made men listen
2. She never gave up
1. She was in it for the right reasons
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Friday, February 19th, 2010 by stephPrince2 in the Enterprise
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 by adminAgile practitioners are thinking about Agile in the Enterprise and Prince2 practitioners are doing the same. On September 30th I attended Project Challenge and heard Donnie MacNicol from Team Animation delivering a fantastic presentation on work he has done in collaboration with Andy Murray called ‘Beyond Prince2′. They have defined components for project success, which are:
Perspectives
- Individual
- Project Team
- Organisation
Competencies
- Technical
- Behavioural
- Contextual
They assessed Prince2 in each of these components. For example, from the individal perspective, how does Prince2 address Technical competency? How does it address Behavioural competency? Contextual? etc.
What they found was that Prince2 addresses the Technical competencies for the Individual and the Team very well. Ie., we all focus on ‘doing projects right’. The areas that are not addressed very well by Prince2 are the Behavioral Competence in the Organisation, and Contextual Competence in the Organisation. To elaborate, MacNicol and Murray identify the symptoms where the there are ‘issues’ in Contextual Competence in the Organisation.
- Sector focus is incorrect
- No higher level support
- Fighting against the organisation to deliver the project
Sound familiar? They also suggest some solutions which sound pretty sound. Let me know if you want me to share them! (A bit of a test to see if anyone is out there…:-))
So, just as Agile practitioners are considering how to scale from the Team and Individual to the Enterprise, so are the Prince2 practitioners. As someone who uses both methodologies I find this very exciting as we are all now on the cusp of Second Generation of Project Management which is still a new profession, relatively speaking.
They also included a thought-provoking quote and I’ll reproduce it here for you to consider:
‘For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong’ H. L Mencken
The Six Thinking Hats
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 by adminSomeone tipped me off last year to a really useful technique. It may be one of those things that the rest of the world was aware of and I have been under a rock and missed it but in case there are some fellow rock-dwellers reading this blog I’m going to share the epiphany here. I’ve been working on a new business proposition over the past couple of weeks where it has been incredibly useful to apply this technique: Edward De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats.
The premise is that we all have a natural or preferred thinking style. For example, my thinking style is quite critical and ‘nit-picking’ whereas one of my colleagues is more optimistic and grandiose. When considering new business investments we need to apply both styles of thinking (and more) to the proposition to ensure we cover all bases. I’m sure everyone has worked with someone who you dread having a meeting with because they’re so negative or obstructive? I’m not saying I work with anyone like that right now but I have in the past and as a Project Manager it is imperative that I get the outcomes that I need from meetings and the Six Thinking Hats is a great enabler for this. (I have copied the following definitions from wikipedia)
- Neutrality (White) - considering purely what information is available, what are the facts?
- Feeling (Red) - instinctive gut reaction or statements of emotional feeling (but not any justification)
- Negative judgement (Black) - logic applied to identifying flaws or barriers, seeking mismatch
- Positive Judgement (Yellow) - logic applied to identifying benefits, seeking harmony
- Creative thinking (Green) - statements of provocation and investigation, seeing where a thought goes
- Process control (Blue) - thinking about thinking
Six Hats Thinking means that in meetings, for example, the team considers the issues while imaginatively or figuratively wearing each of the Six Hats in turn. Some people stay quiet during Green Hat as they can’t think that way and then jump in with enthusiasm during Black Hat. Genius!
Which Hat are you?
A Webby for the World Service!
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 by adminThe BBC World Service Future Media Team were today celebrating their webby award for the channel website www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice.
The website brings together live radio content, podcasts, user-generated international content as well as providing a portal to the 33 BBC localised news sites (published in as many languages). There was a demanding timescale for the project with the site being delivered in time for the 75th anniversary of the World Service.
Project Management for the project was provided by Magic Milestones, in the shape of our very own Director, Stephanie Chamberlain. The project not only delivered an award-winning website on time and budget but also a new content management system for the journalists updating it.
Kate Goldberg, Interactive Editor for World Service Future Media was thrilled saying,
“The is a fantastic acheivement and a testament to the highly professional and talented team we have here at World Service Future Media. This award makes all that hard-work thoroughly worth while.”
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