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?Hi
Team, Welcome
to the May 2019 Project Management Companion Newsletter where we value your subscription. The
contents of this newsletter are only for subscribers and is not available to readers
of our posts, so we hope you find the information both entertaining and
valuable as you progress through your project management journey. Our subscribers
also have access to any early information regarding project management, monthly
quizzes, have you tried one?, was it too easy? another will follow in early June.
So if we haven’t said it before or enough times, thanks again for taking the
time out to send us your details, it is greatly appreciated. We
hope you enjoy this newsletter, this month’s issue has a very Change Management feel to it,
covering and discussing how Project Management and delivery must have an
understanding of how the project will affect the organisation and the
challenges faced by Change Management during this process.admin@projectmanagementcompanion.com Happy reading.
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“Change can be more
successfully navigated with the power of Psychological Insight”
The
Psychology of Change models strategies leadership teams need to adopt in order
to successfully embed change. The
evolution of the workplace and the journey employees have taken from an
industrial / factory focused workplace, towards a more collaborative management
approach. We are no longer being siloed into single roles, in single teams but
increasingly becoming members to cross-functional teams, matrix structures,
various projects and scrums, enabling us to better leverage the strengths of
others around us.
What contributes to the successful
adoption of change?
It is no doubt that technology is far
and wide the biggest disruptor within businesses. However, there are three key
characteristics typical to companies that are both driving and benefiting from
technological change. |
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Company Structure: adopting a flat, mission-driven, network of diverse
teams
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Employee Orientation: Viewing people as assets, investing in their
experiences as well as providing continuous training and feedback
3.
Leader Orientation: Transformational Leadership, sets the vision, builds
the culture and develops people.
These successes are a result of
moving away from hierarchical, efficiency driven, transactional managers that
are promoted based on hard skills (rather than today’s coveted soft skills). |
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Agile & the PMO: Governance in an Agile World
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organisations increasingly adopt Agile to deliver projects within individual
business units, what role does governance have to play?
With the current trend toward a more
Agile environment in project management, the way organisations
are adopting it is changing how projects
are delivered.
Some organisations are going all-out and
becoming exclusive domains of Agile, while others are being more selective
about Agile techniques that suit the business and blending them into the
existing waterfall or iterative methodologies.
As Agile is increasingly adopted in varying
degrees, there is an unforeseen impact on the traditional PMO, in particular,
the concept of centralised governance and portfolio management.
In the brave new world of Agile, is the
concept of a PMO still valid and what are the unintended consequences for
centralised governance and portfolio management disciplines?
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Embedding Organisational Change
Management for Success
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Change in an Agile Environment
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