As you begin to move from a Chaotic Project Management Culture, one of those struggles for the organization is going to be how do I know when do I have a project? PMI's definition is a bit nebulous for the staff trying to accept a project management methodology. PMI defines a project as a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result. Those trying to understand the project management methodology take a little bit for the enlightenment light bulb. Those passive aggressive dissenters never cross this river and use this concept as a political barrier.
However, the good news is that this obstacle is easily overcome. The easiest technique is to provide a pm cookbook recipe approach.
I know I have a project when several (not all) of these conditions are met:
- I am going to need a team of people to get this done
- I am going to need to tell my boss and my customer the progress of this over a month or longer
- I have a business executive who wants to get this in to improve the way his department works
- Our goal is to provide this objective by adding this or really change that to this
- I am really going to need to coordinate everyone's task to get this done
- Someone has to keep track of the funding to buy and install this
- We are creating or installing something net new, which we have not done before here
- I am going to have to train people to use this
Further Readings on Taming Chaotic Project Management:
- The Top Ten Characteristics of a Chaotic Project Management Environment
- Find out how many active projects are in flight.
- Establish your organization's current and desired need of Healthcare IT
- Collaborate on Prioritization Decision Criteria
- Have a defined and approved process to accept work.
- How to stop running the daily meeting marathon
- Using the WBS to define deliverables
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