September 2005
Project Manager Today
www.pmtoday.co.uk
“Is project management counter cultural”
continues the nature/nurture debate by asking why project managers,
who clearly understand the need for a complete definition of scope,
estimating, risk management, communication planning etc and who
may even have completed certification in PMBOK or PRINCE2, fail
to do what they know they should.
Lucidus Consulting offer two reasons from the
nurture side (organisational culture):
• a ‘just do it’ approach
• the ‘hero’ concept where comparisons are made
between project managers who happen to have rescued a troubled
project and those that take time to plan, deliver on time within
budget and to quality expectations. The latter are told their
projects ‘must have been easy.’
On the nature side (individual psychology) Lucidus
claim that structured approaches, particularly to planning, are
counter-cultural for Anglo-Saxons. No further explanation is provided
for this assertion.
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