Project Management | Project Managers

Not too long ago, there was an article published in Project Times about the role of a project sponsor and his/her relationship with the other project team members, "Project Sponsor as Core Team Member". I differ very much with the opinion presented in this article, as it perpetuates a vision of team work that, for me, has nothing to do with the true nature of the relationships that exist between the many stakeholders who journey together in a project, nowadays. It perpetuates a vision of "project order" that does not seem to be in line with the new 'chaordic' paradigm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaordic) that has emerged at the beginning of the 1990s and that is now accepted, by a majority of managers and employees I meet, as "how the world really works now".

I have been in Europe again, for more than a month now, giving agile project management and portfolio management workshops. And again, this year, I was invited to give a couple of conferences about project management issues.

A short while ago, Charles J. Pellerin, the author of How NASA Builds Teams: Mission Critical Soft Skills for Scientists, Engineers, and Project Teams, came to Montreal to lead a one-day workshop based on his book. This event was organised with the sponsorship of the PMI-Montreal chapter.

WOW! So many people coming to my blog this month! Looking for the elusive recipe, aren't you? I'll give it to you, but before, let me settle scores with 'Listmania', a type of illness that prevents project managers and other stakeholders from thinking straight.