The powerpoint document of the paper which I presented on 28th February at the AGMS International Conference in Las Vegas.

1. Project Management – Contemporary Issues
– Contemporary answers – Generation Y
AGMS Conference
Las Vegas 28th February 2011
Diane Dromgold
Managing Director
RNC Global Projects
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2. There are only two things going on
Delivering Working on
today’s goals tomorrow’s
Business as Usual (BAU)
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Projects

3. Time was……
When BAU and Projects were separate
Project
team
but…….
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4. The times they are a changin’
In organisations and projects
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5. The organization chart -
we’re still ‘doin it
Boss
Operations Support Project
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6. Reality – it’s messy
BAU Legal/
Market’g Finance IT Sales Clients
The projects Strategy Product HR OPS Manu’g
compliance
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7. Tug-of-war for ‘share of effort’
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8. But in Project Management -
the fantasy persists (reality ignored)
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9. What people see
Big job – get to it!
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10. How they respond –
’what will I do’?
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11. What happens?
Each person decides what
they will work on and when.
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12. Organisations have delegated ‘share of
effort decisions’ to the individual
and project control is an illusion:
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13. Credibility
It’s project
management
that’s seen to
fail
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14. Threat or opportunity
Problem or solution?
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15. And then came Generation Y
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16. Psychology
They’re not that different
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17. Please - make it about ME
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18. The Management Gap it’s not just a
project issue, and
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19. the race is on
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20. Please - make it about ME
(Project management can bridge the gap and be
at the centre of the future)
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21. The future
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22. Or, the past
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23. If the future – what next?
Focus project management research
and study on the bigger question of
organisational achievement and away
from more and better ways to track
progress (we’re pretty much covered
there).
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24. Contact Information
• Diane Dromgold
• RNC Global Projects
• ddromgold@rncglobal.com
• 1 877 755 2633
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