Project Management for People with Common Sense: Embrace Chaos

Project sponsors typically have little time or patience to work through the chaos inherent to creating something new. We’ve all heard of Storming, Forming, Norming and Performing in team development. Storming = Chaos. Many business cultures view a project’s chaotic season as something to “get over” instead of productive grapple. To paraphrase educationist Ken Robinson, “We create through the restless process of imagining alternatives and possibilities.” Attempts to skip that restlessness guarantees fractures in the long-term. Your role as project manager? Help ease the growing pains.

We create through the restless process of imagining alternatives and possibilities. Ken Robinson

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Chaos in Project Management: Forming and Storming

3 Steps to Creating Common Vocabulary Among Project Sponsors

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Project Management: The Right Team = Project Steam

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Project Management: Establishing Common Ground

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Project Management: Now that You Got ‘em,

Get ‘em to Talk to Each Other

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