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Project Management Cultures: The Hidden Challenge
Cutter Consortium, July 2007, Pages: 19
Corporate culture is about 'how things happen' in an organization. Its about the shared views of what are acceptable ways of behaving, feeling, thinking, and communicating. While many contemporary project management models include stakeholder management and some elements of project governance, they ignore the broader and more important cultural and behavioral issues associated with implementing project management throughout an organization.
This report explores the cultural implications and impact of various project management models on project management. The report reviews Goffee and Jones Cultural Model, including its four cultural types: (1) fragmented; (2) networked; (3) mercenary; and (4) communal. Youll learn which cultures are more suited to agile project management and why, and youll get strategies for overcoming the challenges that arise when the value system of your project management model does not align with your larger organizational culture.
This report will help you:
- Gain a greater understanding of the cultural underpinnings embedded in the behaviors, symbols, and rituals of your project management practices
- Avoid having your project and program managers fall victim to your organizations culture
- Identify your managements cultural attitudes towards your clients and accept that these attitudes may be in complete conflict with those of your new recruits and clients
- Create a collaborative partnership between project managers and businesspeople
- Expand both business and technical professionals awareness of each others concerns
- Adopt the key belief that projects belong to business stakeholders, not the project manager and technical team members
- Stop playing project estimation games
Discover why, 50 years later, its time to let go of the engineering project management paradigm and bring your organizations project management behaviors into focus. Benefit from a list of 21 questions that will help you better understand your organizations attitudes towards successful project management.
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