Project Management: Methods for Success in Changing Environments L e a d i n g C h a n g e T h r o u g h C o l l a b o r a t i o n
Project Management: Methods for Success in Changing
Environments
L e a d i n g C h a n g e T h r o u g h C o l l a b o r a t i o n
Pollyanna PixtonFounding Partner, Accelinnova
President, Evolutionary SystemsDirector, Institute of Collaborative Leadership
L e a d i n g C h a n g e T h r o u g h C o l l a b o r a t i o n
Leadership Challenges
“It’s no longer enough to respond to change;
today organizations must lead change or be left behind.”
- Pollyanna Pixton
Leadership Challenges
Get more done by doing less Lead change and embrace change Deliver the Right product Meet customer’s changing needs Deliver to rapidly moving market windows Innovate on both sides of your business
model
Leadership Challenges
“The way you will thrive in this environment is by innovating – innovating in technologies, innovating strategies, innovating business models.”
- IBM CEO Samuel J. Palmisano
[ BusinessWeek, April 24, 2006 ]
Project Statistics
0 10 20 30 40 50 60
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Challenged
Succesful
20061996
Standish Group Study, reported by CEO Jim Johnson, CIO.com, ‘How to Spot a Failing Project’
Features and Functions
Never Used 45%
Rarely Used 19%
Sometimes 16%
Often 13%Always 7%
Always or Often Used: 20%
Never or Rarely Used: 64%
Standish Group Study, reported by CEO Jim Johnson, XP2002
Deliver business value
Increase productivity Lead change and
embrace change Innovate
Agile Leaders Must…
Leadership Models
Agile Leadership: Embraces or
creates change Collaborates and
gives ownership Influential Fosters new ideas
Non-Agile: Controls or responds
to change Authoritarian with
leader deciding Bureaucratic Knows the answers
Leadership Models
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CollaborationCollaboration
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Strategic Development
Mission Vision Values
Strategic Intent ~ Strategy ~ Purpose
Long-Range Goals
Annual Objectives
Action Plans (what, who, when)
Individual Business ObjectivesTac
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SCO / 5Q
Start Here
Purpose-Based Alignment
MarketDifferentiating
High
Low
Mission CriticalLow High
Innovate
Achieve andMaintain ParityWho Cares?
Do We Take This On?
- Niel Nickolaisen Model
Tools for Strategic Plans
The Five Questions:1. Whom do we serve and what do they want and
need most?
2. What services do we provide to help them?
3. How do we know we’re doing a good job?
4. What is the best way to provide these services?
5. How should we organize to deliver these services?
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Project Differences
Project Complexity
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Simple, young projects. Need agilityTight Teams
Skunks
DogsDogs
Complex, mature marketNeed defined interfaces
Cows
BullsAgility to handle uncertaintyProcess definition to cope
with complexity
laissez faire
Colts
Low
Low
High
High
- Todd Little Model
Partitioning
Dog Project
Cow Project
Colt Project
Bull Program
Remember: Loose Coupling and Strong Cohesion
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Project Management
Maintaining Project Focus
None of us are as smart as all of us. – Japanese Proverb
Collaboration Model
Convene the Right People From the Entire Enterprise!
Customers
Marketing
Sales
Finance
Technology
Manufacturing
Stakeholders
The Right People
Hire and promote: First on the basis of integrity
Second, motivation
Third, capacity
Fourth, understanding
Fifth, knowledge
Last and least, experience
- Dee Hock, CEO Emeritus VISA International
The Right People
Passionate About
Best At
Organizational Fit All team members operate
within the intersection
Collaborative Leadership
Leadership ‘Tipping Point’: When to lead When to step back
Where is your ‘Tipping Point’? How can you step up and still be
collaborative?
Leadership Tips
Ricardo Semler, CEO of Semco, believes that all people desire to achieve excellence and that autocracy dampens people’s creativity and motivation.
- The Seven-Day Weekend
Communication
“Organizations change in the directionin which they inquire.”
Inquire.
Question.
Listen.
Create a place where people want to be not have to be
Make sure everyone has what they need to succeed.
Great Leadership
“It is a bad plan that admits to no modifications.”
-- Publius Syrus (ca. 42 BCE)
Project Leadership
Iteration Review
Leadership Role: Run Business Value
Model Revisit Backlog,
Prioritize Based onBusiness Value
Iteration Review
Ask the Questions: Update definition of ‘done’ based on
business value, if required? Is the project done? Need to add new features? Add to the
best-fit iteration Team plans and starts the next iteration
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Business Value Models
Value Model
Considerations
Purpose
Business Value
Costs
Benefits
- Kent McDonald Model
Leadership Models
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Summary
Collaborate to: Focus on Strategic Alignment: Identify your
Decision Filters Deliver the Right product Right: Balance
your portfolios Create Business Value: Build models and
exercise them as inputs change
References
The Seven-Day Weekend, Ricardo Semler
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the
Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace, Gordon MacKenzie
Organizing Genius, The Secrets of Creative Collaboration, Warren Bennis
Contact
Pollyanna Pixton: www.accelinnova.com www.evolutionarysystems.net www.collaborativeleadership.com +1 . 801 . 209 . 0195 [email protected]