I am so pleased that the Australian Institute of Project Management Sydney 2018 conference rated this talk so highly. How do I know? I have been asked to reprise it via webinar. This time I am looping my research colleague Jeff Volkheimer in too. Though “project managers” are not in his title, like one the rest of us he is one anyway:
The good thing about the proliferation of project management as a technique of doing anything is that it allows us to break up this idea that you need to manage a person to manage a capability or resource. The problem, of course, is that the skills development – formal and informal – around this isn’t given the attention it requires. Especially not in the softer skills (communication, emotional intelligence, etc) space.
Projects are, by definition, discreet endeavours. They have a beginning and an end. Do they lend themselves to the infinite game? Sure they do. Because the relationships, capabilities, skills and resources in one project don’t necessarily disappear into the ether when you are done. Rather they are part of the invisible network that ties more and more people together and enriches all the subsequent projects we work on.
The Infinite Game 