Baltic Project Management Days

On 2 days GamingWorks was part of the Baltic Project Management Days in Riga. Running a Challenge of Egypt in the morning of the 16th and a presentation about ‘Make your projects better  by Learning Processes’.

In the morning Simulation a team of 10 participants run the Challenge of Egypt. At the end of the session the results were not that well:

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We asked the Participants 2 major questions:

  1. What were the Fail Factors you discover today by running this simulation. 
  2. What are the related Success Factors you suggest we need to implement in our Project Team
Outcome

REFLECTION : Fail Factors

  • Poor project startup
  • Roles, responsibilities, processes
  • Lack of instruments to control/steer own work
  • Too many roles are steering
  • Lack of proactive approach

THINK : Success Factors

  • Give whole PM team time to learn
  • Training, Kick off etc
  • Communicate expectations, roles, responsibilities AND AGREE, YES means YES
  • Use Work Packages, Tolerances, Empowerment to control and steer project on the execution level
  • Remove useless activities, double roles and responsibilities
  • Use PMO / PA to prepare decisions 

Later during the day i delivered my presentation about learning processes and i used the outcomes in the morning as example.

If you are interested in the whole presentation you can download it

Make Your Projects Better by Learning Processes RIGA v1