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1. Project Management –
Contemporary Issues – Contemporary Answers
– Generation Y.
Diane Dromgold
RNC Global Projects
ABSTRACT
Generations Y and Z present intriguing challenges for projects.
Today, people are shared between and across projects and business as usual. People work on
several projects at the same time meaning project managers must compete for the attention and
‘effort share’ of each individual.
Project managers are uniquely placed to leverage this and thereby facilitate project success.
Generations Y and Z demand they be the centre of the plan – not the task.
This paper explains an approach, developed and tested through trial, error, thought and research
that works for and with Generations Y and Z (and Boomers and X’ers thrive under it as well).
INTRODUCTION
There is one major contemporary issue facing project management – credibility. All other
challenges are sub-ordinate to that single issue. It’s an issue that if not met will see project
management potentially relegated to the status of a low-level administrative function. This paper
explores why there is a credibility gap, proposes two approaches to address it and focuses on the
opportunity presented by Generations Y and Z for updating project management and moving it to
the forefront of importance within organisations.
BACKGROUND
Project Management as a definable skill and discipline emerged in the mid 1900’s with the
purpose of achieving unique outcomes. Since then it has developed into a profession with its
own language, rules, associations and accreditations. The management and delivery of projects
wasn’t new but the disciplines, processes and procedures were.
These developed from engineering based companies, such as DuPont, presumably, in response to
specific problems with individual projects. The development of the domain parallels the history
of management of which the basics have been:
2. Pre 1950s
Organizations, whether projects, corporations, government, not-for-profit were
established to achieve something (and achievement is the focus)
Managers had a command and control authority over the people working for them –
interestingly, anecdotal evidence suggests projects were successful (on any measure)
about 50% of the time
Increased focus on ‘management’ and planning (GANTT was born)
1960s and 70s
People can be organized mechanistically (scientific management)
1980s and 90s
What you measure gets done (metrics and quality movements)
Flat structures and reporting lines are most efficient
Down time is a bad thing (total efficiency will result in effectiveness)
People can work on many activities within the same timeframe (efficiency)
Matrix organisations are the most efficient (people can serve two masters)
Emergence of training and accreditation outside the traditional professions
People are self-motivated to do what we want them to do when we want them to do it
(magical thinking)
2000s
More control means less failure – and elimination of fraud (post Enron)
Increased reporting mitigates failure – or provides forensic defensibility for failure
2011
By now our sophisticated tools, processes and reporting mean we can determine success
on almost any criteria – time, budget, scope, achievement of goals
However, the people who matter, the people who commissioned the outcome, rarely
agree with the project manager’s definition of success
We can plan, schedule and track to detailed levels
Project management focuses on tasks not people
Project management has been sold as a one size fits all capability
There is a glut of project managers
People who want outcomes achieved are unclear about the distinction between project
managers who focus on administration and those who focus on delivery
We now have a perceived success rate of around 24% Standish Chaos Report (2010)
Project management has very low credibility
Project management has evolved into two streams. One focussing on:
• Developing business cases (that often run for hundreds of pages even for small projects)
• Detailed planning, plotting timelines, tasks, interrelationships and budgets
• Putting in place governance structures and reporting templates and schedules
• Negotiating with suppliers and finalising contracts
• Reporting slippage and problems and replanning.
4. CREDIBILITY – THE CONTEMPORARY ISSUE
Project Management has a credibility challenge, which, in this author’s opinion, can be
addressed by two changes to the way we approach projects and their management:
1. Clarifying the expectation of project managers, by those commissioning projects, as the
highest early priority of each project (i.e. are they expecting the outcome or the
administration to be the highest priority); and
2. If it’s the outcome, ensuring that is what the project manager actually does rather than
relying on administration to deliver (almost as a side effect) the desired outcome.
Some might suggest this is semantics – and perhaps so, but very powerful semantics.
To achieve 1 is relatively simple. All professions have specialisations and it’s time project
management acknowledged and addressed the distinction between administrative and driver
project managers. The challenge then, is for each project manager to decide whether they want
to:
• focus on the administrative process and procedures; or
• focus on driving delivery of the outcome (of course using the tools and meeting the
reporting requirements but with an outcome focus).
Then they need to accept only those roles that align with their speciality and the commissioner’s
expectation. This simple step will go a long way to improving credibility of the profession.
Addressing challenge 2 provides a rich opportunity to move project management to centre stage.
This paper focuses on a method for addressing the challenge of credibility associated with
actually driving projects to completion.
Enter Generations Y and Z. These people have grown up through an education system tailored
to the individual. They believe they can multitask in all things, they demand constant feedback
(and are determined that it should be quality feedback), they want to be challenged and
rewarded, they want to know what they are doing matters to the organisation and they have no
plans to ‘do their time’ on the way to the top. They are not happy to sit in dead end jobs and they
see little value in the experience of older workers. In the course of exploring this, the author was
told by one Gen Y’er “experience could only tell them how things were done yesterday – and
that is of no use today” and by another “tell me what you want done and then leave me alone”.
These people present a challenge and an opportunity.
5. AN APPROACH
Using contemporary project, and general management approaches, people are allocated to tasks
across one or more projects and business as usual within the same timeframe.
Contemporary Project Plans
Most people recognise the following standard example of a project or program plan. It provides
for a single outcome, with tasks as the organisation anchor, and allocation of people secondary.
Figure 1: Contemporary Project Plan
The inevitable unintended consequences are:
• Managers and project managers have a view of the resource allocation on their project or
area of responsibility – but not on the tasks and assignments competing for the ‘effort
share’ of the individual
• Allocation of tasks and assignments is often made in isolation of the allocations being
made by other projects and business as usual
• Individuals have work allocated from several sources
• Individuals have no single view of what is required of them, on whom they are depending
on and who is depending on them
• Individuals must aggregate the information provided to them as best they can
• By default, individuals have the power to decide what they work on and when, and
thereby which projects and tasks are advanced
6. • Project and line managers have become increasingly passive in this environment
• The project management can be terrific yet the project fails. Project and line managers
alike point to resourcing constraints as the issue
• Generations Y and Z are deciding what to work on according to what interests them, what
will do their career the most good and who they like working with
One manager reported “I’m out of touch with what work is going on where, I don’t have an
overall view if who is working on what, I just have to hope its all ok”.
Contemporary next steps
As with most things when we think about them, it becomes clear there needs to be an improved
approach. We are fortunate; Generations Y and Z have come along with their differing
expectations and requirements. We can either continue to insist we approach projects with tasks
as the central focus or we can adapt and move to a view where the individual is the central focus.
The next step isn’t such a big one. Football teams, surgical teams and playwrights have
understood this forever. Plan the ‘play’ but execute with the people.
For a project manager, it means taking the existing project plan and simply going the next step.
Turning it into something people can understand, assimilate and follow.
Figure 2: Resource Centric Version of Project Plan
This can be integrated with projects, programs and business as usual providing a complete
resource centric view of who has to do what and when.
7. Positive consequences
While the aim of this view is to make it clear what each person is working on and when, some
positive consequences have become evident and these transcend generation, culture, geography,
domain expertise:
• No one wants to be the weak link or seen as not holding their end up. With this view it is
very clear who has to do what and who is depending on each person to complete their
work
• People dependent on prerequisite work become more interested in what the people they
are depending on are doing and call out obstacles and challenges far earlier than when
using the contemporary views of allocations
• Management have an integrated view of resource allocation and can empirically
determine who is over allocated (as against the relatively meaningless use of percentage
allocated reporting)
• Individual work allocations can be assessed to determine whether the work being asked
of an individual is realistic in combination – even if there isn’t an over allocation. For e.g.
if it becomes clear that an engineer is being asked to create at the same time as build it
might be necessary to extend the time allocated or reallocate one of the tasks.
• Progress can be monitored on a done/not done basis rather than the very subjective
percentage complete in common use
• Consequences on other projects, programs and portfolios can be assessed as soon as any
single activity is missed
• Senior management has additional information to use when assessing project, program
and portfolio progress
• Generations Y and Z are happy, they know what is required of them and when, and they
know where they fit in to the overall agenda of the organisation.
Best of all project management can now drive actual outcomes. Through that, project
management becomes as integral to managing an organisation as finance already is and it regains
its credibility.
About the Author
Diane Dromgold is the Managing Director of RNC Global Projects. She holds a Bachelor of
Arts; is located in Sydney Australia, and has delivered projects and programs in many countries
and industries. While Diane is a practitioner, rather than an academic, she is committed to
advancing both practice and research aimed at improving the outcomes and image of project
management.
Diane is a regular presenter at industry and project management events; is published in project
management journals and industry guidelines for ensuring project success; she holds a US patent
pending on the approach outlined in this paper.