Winning organisations:
- Accept that project management is a skill that is of value to all staff, irrespective of their role and level.
- Acknowledge that projects don't stand in isolation and are clustered in common portfolios / programmes. Project management is about people first, and about managing relationships between people and their work, second.
- Think about projects as just another facet of work within business. 'Project' is a brand.
- Use project management disciplines for all their work.
- Align projects to strategies and goals. This legitimizes the work for everyone involved within and around the projects.
- Don't try and deliver all projects. Not all projects are of equal standing.
- Prioritise those that will deliver the greatest benefit.
- Don't sweat the detail. Many of the managers we now work with are now much less focussed on the detail of projects and more interested in the levels of activity around the work. They watch the trends in and around the project and help project staff manage events in context rather than isolation.
- Find the balance of process and dynamism that works for them. This defines project culture.
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