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Nano project management

By Phil Richardson ⋅ July 22, 2009 ⋅ Email This Post Email This Post ⋅ Print This Post Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Project management principles such as Prince 2 are fine if the team is trained and the culture encourages the right behaviours. However on my experience projects are full of business people who don’t get the right kind of training or support. Thoughtcrew has developed a new method called Nano Project Management. Business participants in a project work with a daily or weekly project plan and that’s it. Even in a major business transformation they are only working a few days at a time.

The integration is managed at the weekly PM meeting and everyone is happy. Nano Project Management is also great at the end of a course where people leave with a succinct set of iediate next steps. It reinforces the learning and means actions are more likely.

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  1. Hi,

    In theory yes this is a good idea. However the one problem is that in my experience Business people, and by this I mean non techie, marketing types tend not to follow project plans.

    I have for example given drop dead deadlines to numerous business people, and ensured they understood the impact of these deadlines being missed. Despite this other work crops up and the deadlines are missed.

    This is particularly the case when business people are working on deliverables for different projects. It’s almost as if they find it impossible to prioritise the deliverables especially when all the projects have different, but equally senior Project Sponsors.

    Regards

    Susan de Sousa
    Site Editor http://www.my-project-management-expert.com

    Posted by My-Project-Management-Expert.com | July 23, 2009, 10:41 am

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