Joe's Jottings
Jottings Number 39, Reply A, by Chris Cavanaugh
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 95 08:16:35 -0700
I have been an interested by-stander as the spirited discussion has been
raging about heroes (especially) and your other jottings. Reading the
dialogue got me thinking that it would be great to get the collective
intelligence of this group to respond to a question which relates to the
environment that many of these people live in.
I'm working with Richard Bauhaus right now on upgrading the Transition to
Project Management course. I am currently talking to people about the trends
that are building at HP which impact project managers and the project
management environment. We want to understand the most current challenges that
a new project manager may face, since as you know since you have been a
speaker, the purpose of the course is to let prospective project managers or
inquisitive individual contributors know what they may be in for.
Is this issue about heroes, since it has touched such a nerve, a good subject
to address in the program? Is it too relegated to the technical environments?
Is it a trend or as Chris Argyris would say, "an undiscussable"?
What other trends do you see impacting the project manager of today?
On another subject, what do you feel the needs of a long term project manager
are (someone who has been in the job for over ten years) that should be
addressed by the Project Management Initiative? How should we be reaching out
to them?
The wisdom and insight and the collective intelligence of the
remarkable group of people on your distribution network would be
appreciate.
Chris