aiQido
Quality, Risk & Issues in Complex Project Management
Toolbox revisited
So, if not everything is a nail, and the hammer is not the only tool, we must find ourselves an improved toolbox.
Above and beyond traditional projects management with its cast-in-stone work breakdown structures, activity planning to a detail that will never become true, and reporting that gives insight in the progress but misses the point in how far the set goals are realized. .
Categorization
The ICCPM (International Center for Complex Project Management) shows 5 levels of complexity categorization (PCAT levels).
It ranges from PCAT 5, Minor works in projects management, not complex to PCAT 1, Complex project management in highly complex environments.
PCAT 4 and PCAT 3 relate to traditonal project management (International Project Management Association's level B and A respectively).
A complex project (PCAT 1 and PCAT 2) must be managed based on strategy and vision with matching quality and control tools. Instead of planning all and everything in advance we probe (technical and social probing), we test, we investigate alternatives as we go. We work in waves, each waves being well planned, with learning and adapting in between the waves. It is goals and vision that counts, success is not measured by stating how close we are to the original journey, planned when we still safely at home.
Tools
Just because traditional project management and its tools have proven to be succesful, does not mean that everything is a simple, plannable project.
Decide to look further and choose the tools wisely.
aiQido is a trade name of Tracking-IT BV, The Netherlands