The Project Hub continued with its Nation Wide rollout for IDT (Independant Development Trutst). We have previously blogged about it here.
We were lucky enough to enjoy the warm weather and hostitality of the Limpopo branch in Polokwane. We are looking forward to engaging with this team more closely as we continue to improve their programme and project management skills.
For assistance to improve your own programme or project management skills please do not hesitate to contact us.
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Is this not true in project also. I am often challenged by people, business processes, expectations, non performance, attitudes…just to mention a few ..when running a project. To be honest, these are things I really could do without, but still they are part of running projects. The success of a project lies not in the fact that we do not have these challenges, but more oftentimes in the manner in which we address the challenges we do have.
On the other hand I tend to want stuff that I really do not need. We look at projects and focus on the 80% that really delivers the 20% of value. If we plan properly before we start we should realize that some bells and whistles can really be dropped. Getting the priority things addressed first would remove a lot of pressure from the team and ensure that value to the client is produced early in the development life cycle. The success of a project therefor also lies in getting the balance right between what I want and what I truly need. This balance talks to performances optimization and in more layman’s terms being able to do more with less.
So this seemingly paradoxical statements both seems to be building blocks towards project success. It is therefore necessary that we are consciously mindful that we will get what we do not need, and so must take care how we handle these unwelcome guests to our projects. On the other hand we will want things for ourselves, our teams and our clients, that we can do without and so should not place an unnecessary burden on the delivery team and so jeopardize the outcome of the entire project.
Written By: Lizette Venter
I recall this phrase from an old song years back and suddenly realised that during that time in my life I sang the lyrics but did not really fully understand the implication of it. Life was easy as I lived off my parent’s provision, wore tekkies and dreamt of a world full of opportunities just waiting for me to arrive on the scene. Through the years though dreams made way for reality and so quite a few battle scars find their way into my mental world.
We are often hit with the realisation that money is tight and opportunities do not appear on your doorstep everyday but have to be earned and worked at. John Maxwell states that: ”One is too less a number to achieve greatness”, and so we also realise that we need other people in our lives to help us mine these opportunities and to complement our skills with their own.
This realisation is so much more visible in a corporate environment. Very few organisations can really throw money at every good idea and so they have to prioritise the ideas and implement them through the right projects at the right time and do them right using the right team. Now I know there was way too much use of the word “right” in the previous sentence, but still I think you get the idea.
There is not a lot of margin for error and we need to help our organisation to find the sweet spot between efficiency and effectiveness given resource constraints. Who better to help them than well equipped and capable project managers? We will never be in the position to get our old view of life back, but we can learn from our mistakes and wear the t-shirts we earned through a world of living.
Written by Lizette Venter