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When you’re feeling the overwhelm, the pressure, and you need a way to make projects run better in your organisation…who do you turn to?
Matthew MConaughey of course!
Hang with me here – check out the below, McConaughey from an interview on Joe Rogan’s podcast, with my emphasis:
Read more…Prefer to watch rather than read? Click here, five minutes, with captions.
Last time I went through the principles which simply let you deliver more projects with less stress.
Yes, totally true. Read it here.
The super-short summary is that by lining them up and focusing on finishing instead of starting, you get benefits earlier which lowers stress and interruption, while also reducing switching cost. It’s one of the key aspects of the method I call The Project Factory.™
Here’s a picture of the principle:
I finished by saying: “I know what you’re thinking – ‘great, but that’s not how the real world works’.
I know – I live in it too. Which is why there’s a Part II to this article coming soon…”
Which is what you’re reading right now.
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There’s so many projects on, it’s overwhelming. Yet, when we look at the total work and the total salary budget…we should be able to get it all done! We get the seemingly absurd situation of not being able to spend that very capital or project funding we worked so hard to get!
What’s going on here? Luckily…it’s something quite natural…and quite simple. And it’s also one of the key aspects of the method I call The Project Factory ™
Goes like this:
We’ve got three projects, Blue, Red and Green. All equal value. All due the same time. All break down into four parts, each part takes one month. This isn’t a trick, they’re all equal.
Read more…We’d all like projects to work better in our organisations. Whenever we try to do this, however, it ends up in a template-infested swamp of mediocrity.
Sometimes the smallest things can make a huge difference. Even things you’ve maybe heard about before. So, I’d like to (re)introduce the PERT Chart as a simple technique that can make your projects just go better.
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This time we’re going into “fluid, flexible, task-based structures”. Very fancy sounding words.
First, a quote. This is from a KPMG report on the things that will change from COVID that was titled with great importance: “Our New Reality: Predictions after COVID-19”.
Remote work will break traditional management structures
As we shift from managing inputs to managing by outcomes, current organisational hierarchies won’t make sense. A shift to flatter and more fluid task-based structures will follow and require new management skills and changes to performance measurement and reward programs. Company culture will also need to be re-examined.
Hierarchies “won’t make sense”. Come on!
Read more…OK, if you haven’t seen this before, this will land somewhere between ‘nice one’ and ‘holy freakin’ #@&* what have we been doing’.
It’s the reason why your whole organisation, your team, and you yourself have the permanent feeling of too much on and nowhere near enough of that ‘let’s get after it and get it done‘ vibe.
It’s the reason why whenever I ask ‘how’s things?‘ the answer I get is the wry smile, shake of the head, then ‘you know….flat out as always, you know how it is‘.
Yes, I do know how it is.
So let me set it up for you. As always, I didn’t invent this stuff, I’m here to make genius useful when I find it, and this comes from Eli Goldratt’s Critical Chain, and further made sense of by Rob Newbold and Bill Lynch in The Project Manifesto.
It goes like this, which is deliberately over-simple: Read more…