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Dec 19 2019

If Top Sectors Apply Critical Chain Method to Accelerate Projects, Why Does PMI Keep it Secret?

If Top Sectors Apply Critical Chain Method to Accelerate Projects, Why Does PMI Keep it Secret?

Every company has to coordinate and synchronize internal and external actions to get results. That’s the way every industry works and success depends on it. We can call it Project Management. There are thousands, if not millions, of well-meaning Project Managers around the world whose job is to help projects work. People spend millions of […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Network of Projects, project management · Tagged: critical chain, multitasking, PMI, project management

Jun 08 2019

Every Project is a System – Don’t Ignore these Systemic Principles for Effective Project Management

Every Project is a System – Don’t Ignore these Systemic Principles for Effective Project Management

This week we delivered an over-subscribed webinar for the Project Management Institute (PMI) global platform. It is always a privilege to address people in many different countries on such a vital subject matter. Project Management affects every single one of us, as citizens and consumers.  Today’s post introduces some critical concepts when it comes to effective […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Network of Projects, project management, Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: constraint, critical chain, PMI, project management

Oct 25 2018

Buffer Money -Radically Protecting Projects

Buffer Money -Radically Protecting Projects

Today’s post is by our Founder, Dr. Domenico Lepore. We have been writing extensively about the benefits of a design that mirrors the inherent project nature of the work of any organization. We call it the ‘Network of Projects’ organization design. The steps to build a Network of Projects organization are: 1)    Recognizing that organizations are Systems, Networks of […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Network of Projects, project management, systems view of the world · Tagged: critical chain, money buffer, network of projects, project buffer, project management

Apr 27 2018

Bulldoze Business Schools? A New Systemic Curriculum for Complexity in Business and Management

Bulldoze Business Schools? A New Systemic Curriculum for Complexity in Business and Management

Our business world is changing rapidly. Complexity dominates and old solutions no longer work. Some refer to this as the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’. Given all these changes, it is remarkable to see that MBAs are offering much the same program content as 20 years ago. A Professor in the UK has gone as far as […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Network of Projects, Systems Thinking, systems view of the world · Tagged: complexity, constraint, curriculum, network of projects, project management, systems view, variation

Dec 06 2017

Hierarchy and Silos – How they Hurt Project Management

Hierarchy and Silos – How they Hurt Project Management

Even with the best Project Management, hierarchy and silos will interfere with outcomes. In this post we look at why that is and how Project Management itself is the answer. If you Google the term ‘Project Management’ you will hundreds of millions of results. It is a multi-billion dollar business and there are official institutes that […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Network of Projects, project management · Tagged: conflict cloud, critical chain, empowerment, network of projects, project management, theory of constraints

Nov 28 2017

What is a Project Manager?

What is a Project Manager?

The term Project Manager is much abused. We look at a precise definition of what Project Manager means in a systemic organization, where projects make up the nervous system of the organization. An organization is essentially a network of projects with a goal An organization is essentially a network of projects with a goal. There are projects that […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: project management, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: critical chain, network of projects, project management, project manager

Aug 01 2017

How a CIO Can Learn to Drive Real Business Results

How a CIO Can Learn to Drive Real Business Results

Ideally, the role of the CIO should be to manage the Quality of how humans and technology interact to produce real business results. In reality, CIOs today find themselves constrained in what they can achieve operationally. On  the one hand, they need to be able to improve business performance. This leads them to want to […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: project management, Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: business results, CIO, conflict, processes, project management, silos, systemic management

Jun 16 2017

Come together, right now! Technology for Collaboration

Come together, right now! Technology for Collaboration

New technological platforms are emerging almost daily to allow people to come together and collaborate. This should be good news because every human activity aimed at producing a result requires collaboration. Even more good news is that this is very healthy in evolutionary terms: collaboration is more effective than competition. The very success of our species […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: change, oriented network, Prerequisite Tree, project management, technology for collaboration, Transition Tree

May 23 2017

Project Resilience – a Systems View

Project Resilience – a Systems View

Conversations at Intelligent Management this week have been abuzz with Project Management. This is hardly surprising as we have been preparing to speak at the sold-out event tomorrow evening for PMI Northern Italy dedicated to the New Leadership for Complexity. But also because Project Management really is at the heart of every kind of business. […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: project management, Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: project management, system optimization, systemic thinking, theory of constraints

Apr 12 2017

State of the Art Project Management with Critical Chain

State of the Art Project Management with Critical Chain

Too many projects all over the world fail to deliver, coming in late and over budget. We all pay the price for this. The reason is because much of Project Management is flawed in its thinking and execution. It doesn’t have to be this way. In his 1997 business novel called ‘Critical Chain’, Dr. Eliyahu […]

Written by angela montgomery · Categorized: Systems Thinking, systems view of the world, Theory of Constraints · Tagged: critical chain, Goldratt, project management, quality involvement flow, systemic organization, theory of constraints

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