Introduces concepts around the complexity of execution and the dependency of successful project management on leadership, culture, and purpose.

1. Connecting Leadership & Project Management Concepts
Susan Graves
s.graves@sbcglobal.net
Beyond the PMO

2. Statistics show change failure as high as
But your company is exceptional with a success rate of
70%

3. Is ?30%failure good

4. If your company fails to execute,
is it just a collection of failed projects
?

5. What’s
wrong ?

6. Where does the
problem really start ?

7. Is it strategic or tactical ?

8. If your organization can’t do what you think you’re asking….
Do you think they know
what you’re asking ?

9. Things to ponder

10. If you asked your
management team to
summarize your
strategy on a sticky... Would everyone say the same thing?
Would they say anything?
How about staff?
What would YOU write?

11. If your job was an
elected position,
how would it change your
approach to human capital
management?

12. What
else ?

13. Never enough people

14. The pros and cons approach
“
I have found great advantage
from this kind of equation in what
may be called moral or prudential
algebra.
Benjamin Franklin, 1772

15. Never enough resources

16. It’s difficult to get
functional areas to look
outside of their
environment

17. It’s complicated
“
Where id was, there
ego shall be
Sigmund Freud

18. Now
what?

19. Build foundation

20. Do proceed with the end in mind

21. Just make sure others can see it

22. Yes, you can change
the culture,
because
you are the
culture

23. Align,
not assign

24. Yes, be agile
but don’t forget that you have prior
successes from which to draw
embrace change,
&

25. Make decisions wisely

26. Do you need
a PMO
?

27. Sometimes it’s about the decision you make,
but it’s always about how you implement it

28. If you build it,
will it show value
?

29. Educate
We used to
call project
managers
supervisors,
managers,
and directors
!

30. Nice idea,
but what
does it do?

31. Location
Location
Location !

32. Hire the right people

33. Vision
Culture
Align
Process
History
Build

34. ?Make sense