Comments for Project Portfolio Management TodayOrganizations constantly change themselves in many ways, and those changes are brought about through projects and project portfolios. Here is where the notion of a desired future state becomes important. Future state means “a clear definition of destinations that exist in the visions and plans of people who take responsibility for the performance of the organization.†When an organization moves in a direction, a desired future state represents the destination of that direction, and that...Comment by groland on Communities, Conversations, Projects- August 15, 2008 Disclaimer - I am an Innotas employee. Demian, this is an interesting topic. Reading your post made me realize that one of the primary responsibilities and skills of a project manager is to facilitate the conversation. Anyone in the project can look at the tasks at hand, or the schedule or the budget (assuming they have access to this information), but that info isn't enough to make the project happen well; on time, on budget, customer goals met, needed iterations happening, etc.http://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/ppmtoday/communi... Comment by Demian Entrekin on Art or Science- August 7, 2008 Thanks for your comment on this post -- it is good to go back and look at things I said way back in 2005. I'm not sure I would make this point in quite the same way today. Today, I might say that a methodology gives the people AND the organization a common language and a map. Where are we going and why How do we get there The key word here is "we." Not very much of this matters for the individual artisan working in the garage. I would also say that we need more objectihttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/ppmtoday/art-or-... Comment by shweta_sharma on Art or Science- August 7, 2008 I think management is a mix blend of both science and art.SCIENCE in the sense that there are certain rules and methods to be followed to reach a particular goal,or to get an output,but when time comes when you cant get a solution through the methodology you have been following then at that time you will feel the need of innovating new ideas so as to solve the problem so at that time it becomes an ART.So in all the term "management" is incomplete without either the term "science" or the term "ahttp://networking.ittoolbox.com/r/rss.asp?url=http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/ppmtoday/art-or-... |