Free Market Project Management
January 26, 2006 09:34 PM Work
I've tried (Lord knows I've
tried!!!) to keep my obsession with things related to project
management out of this blog, but vanity or pride prevents me from
sustaining this intention. I make an exception in this one small
instance. The e-zene Projects@Work today published my latest rant
on the subject of Free Market Project Management, so I just have to
bust my barrier. ...
See the piece (and following comments) here:
http://www.projectsatwork.com/content/Articles/229437.cfm
We have been undermining an important capability, one essential to our global competitiveness. The movement toward "process maturity" has been moving us away from an on-the-ground reality. We build castles when we really need tents. We maintain bureaucracies when we need entrepreneurial engagement. Much of the rest of the world has already discovered this wrinkle in our dominant economy. How long before we catch on? Your guess might be as good - or even better than mine. What's clear to me, and to many others, is that we will not much longer be able to define the terms of our trades. This is a great tragedy for those who have constructed castles. And a Godsend for those who live in tents.
As Kurt Vonnegut often said, "So it goes."
See the piece (and following comments) here:
http://www.projectsatwork.com/content/Articles/229437.cfm
We have been undermining an important capability, one essential to our global competitiveness. The movement toward "process maturity" has been moving us away from an on-the-ground reality. We build castles when we really need tents. We maintain bureaucracies when we need entrepreneurial engagement. Much of the rest of the world has already discovered this wrinkle in our dominant economy. How long before we catch on? Your guess might be as good - or even better than mine. What's clear to me, and to many others, is that we will not much longer be able to define the terms of our trades. This is a great tragedy for those who have constructed castles. And a Godsend for those who live in tents.
As Kurt Vonnegut often said, "So it goes."
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