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Every company one way or another plan their future that lands into strategy documents, on building walls or anywhere else I have been part of annual planning in all the companies, that i had a chance to work in and it seems, that most of the time we loose our knowledge of how project management practices could be used here. Rather you notice, that this part is made as something mystified that only genius's can do. But if you look closer and think about any long or short term company planning it has all the same elements as project management: we do analysis to understand what is the situation in the market and where the demand exists. During analysis we draw our solution design of what we would like to achieve in 3, 5 years period we plan potential steps of how to achieve our vision and how much it may cost to us while looking the point of how much we can spend when the company roadmap is done we execute it with or without iterations, using agile or traditional way of delivering things if market conditions changes, we start again - we analyse and re - plan So why then we sometimes not capable to run proper company planning, but good in project planning? #projectmanagement #lessonslearned #project #sharingiscaring #knowledgeispower #changemanagement #ismoktospamokos #projektuvaldymas #pokyciovaldymas

I am sure you have heard from leaders, how they say, that we need to empower and trust our employees. But is it really true and how make it happen? Nowadays when people are choosing what to work for, it is super important that companies stand for what they are declaring. It is common to hear in various organisations, that one of the values that they aspire is people empowerment. But reality is, when you look deeper, it is hard to find any empowerment. If you really want to be the company that really represents real people empowerment, do these small steps: Give team leaders a freedom to evaluate their people performance, as they think it is right. This does not mean that everybody does their own evaluation system, no no, centralised approach and guidelines are necessary still, just allow them to decide how many people have done extra mile, how many didn't and based on company results provide a budget for bonuses that each and every leader would have to split for the team - eventually they need to work with the team and reach the result. Instead of asking for evaluation marks in advance and stating, that there is fixed amount of people that can be considered as performers. “If you want your people to feel empowered very carefully look at your processes how they are established and make sure that each role has its decision mandate described and possible to find.” Make sure, that people have actual decision power, so that they would not feel that each more difficult decision need to be done in Board. Describe and communicate each an every role mandate, that indicates in what level of cost, investment, risk tolerance, impact to customers size every person can make a decision. I am sure you have heard about these mandates existing, but have you ever seen it? Setup your project process or any other process in a way, that has reasonable amount of sign off's, which still safeguards the company from something bad to happen, but at the same time do not create an impression, that "i do not need to think about or own anything, because every step is double checked by somebody - this way people stop thinking and awaits instructions in every possible step. Obviously to make this happen, requires self-organised, responsible people and this may take time to reach. So make a plan and start loose up the control in step by step approach, but be honest about that and never jump into announcements that we trust our people, even if all organisation setup screams differently. People will stop believing faster than you notice. #behonest #projectmanagement #lessonslearned #project #sharingiscaring #knowledgeispower #changemanagement #ismoktospamokos #projektuvaldymas #pokyciovaldymas

Many often think about how to gain professional project management skills, leaving personal qualities aside. I do believe that project management is in every step of our life, even if we do not recognise it. While we are dealing with various life situations, we analyse, plan and execute - which are basics in project management. Does it mean, that everybody can be a project manager? Well, yes and no. To deal with life situations everybody can, but when it comes to professional project management, there are certain qualities that each project manager should have: “If you want to be a successful project manager in professional life, there are personal qualities worth to think about and develop.” can - do attitude - this is about ability of self-motivation when project experiences hick-ups. And normally there are many of those in complexed projects project manager should be a team player so that when due to various reasons somebody from the team can not do their tasks, project manager steps in and helps for the project success ownership - project manager needs to understand and own the purpose. For that you need to feel that you are responsible for ultimate result of the project and deep dive into the details of why project is necessary to the organisation. If this is not the case, than it is more project coordinating than managing self-organised - able to act independently, when there are no instructions ready to follow for each an every situation empathy - stakeholder management is huge part of project management. If you are good with stakeholder management, you are on a road to your project success. What empathy is for here? Empathy helps to understand and read people why they may be against the change that you are implementing. By understanding why your stakeholders fare of a change will help you to take certain actions to conquer all those fears #projectmanagement #lessonslearned #project #sharingiscaring #knowledgeispower #changemanagement #ismoktospamokos #projektuvaldymas #pokyciovaldymas