Projectification
What is Projectification?
It’s not a bandwagon!
In the last 2 decades project management has seen 2 big “movements”:
First there was a movement to structure. PRINCE2™ brought a super toolkit which training companies rolled out to countless individuals, often without equipping them with how to select the right tools for the project and so it gained a somewhat unfortunate reputation.
Perhaps by way of a reaction to that structure some saw the growing agile development movement as an opportunity to shake-up project management and make it more nimble and reactive. The term agile project management was coined, but of course agile is about development, the thing that a project produces, rather than the project management. In addition some started describing project management as ‘waterfall’ not understanding that waterfall, like agile is a type of development, not of project management.
We see a real need for a real-world implementation of leading project management techniques which ensure ensure project success time-after-time. An approach to project management built on solid foundations and loaded with sound helping of common sense.
Projectification is about recognising over-complication, and a need for entrepreneurial spirit.
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It’s what business needs in turbulent times.
The project management profession has, over time, made project management very complicated. It may have lost sight of that need for focus on delivering value while overseeing transformation.
Futurists predict that we will see more change in the 2020s than we have in the last 250 years. With the necessary “projectification of society“, there are and will be many more project managers than specialist project professionals.
There will be increased expectations on project managers or transformational business leaders to behave as sub-enterprise CEOs or “mini-MDs”. It is essential to support these entrepreneurs to maintain their momentum and deliver value whilst also protecting them and their organisation with just the right level of tools and governance.
This puts a great deal of expectation on the project profession, and this is at the same time that we’re facing the 4th Industrial Revolution.