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Reinventing Project Management: The Diamond Approach to Successful Growth & Innovation |
Author: Dov Dvir
Published: 2007-08-14 |
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 Project Management that aligns with Innovation
Finally, we have a book that aligns project management with innovation and growth. This book does this by recognizing that there isn't a one size fits all approach to project management, that the real objective of the project is not the triple constraint (time, cost and requirements) but meeting the customer needs and achieving the business requirements, that force fitting the construction approach to project management into innovation doesn't work, and that project management is not just about control, control and more control, etc. Consequently, for all project managers who have tried to force fit PMI principles into the world of innovation, this is the book for you, because it tells you that it doesn't work and then proceeds to provide a very basic and strategic model that does. Having tried the old and tired traditional approaches to project management, I must say that it is refreshing to see a better approach. I highly recommend this book.
Blanco-Review-06-08
Excellente Book. For every body ineterested in this subject or related with project management should read it. I really recommend it.
 A guide to managing your projects
Most projects fail because conventional project management concepts cannot adapt to today's dynamic business environment. This book, which is based on many case studies, provides a new and highly adaptive model for planning and managing projects. Aaron J. Shenhar and Dov Dvir explain how to use their "Diamond Framework" to understand the nature of your projects, and diagnose the gaps between your current capabilities and what you need to do to make your projects succeed. Their flexible model provides valuable information for evaluating and managing projects for the maximum competitive advantage. We recommend this book to managers who want to strengthen their ability to take charge of projects in a more systematic and compelling way.
 Technical Guide with good ideas
Reinventing Project Management is a highly technical guide to Project management in a large organization. The scope of the book assumes that projects can be parsed to fine degree and that the organization would be able to organize within the resulting focus. My experience is that this kind of analysis exceeds the tolerances of most organizations and that employees that get the point of this kind of framework are frustrated when working with those that do not.
The book has a lot of useful material in the appendix. I took way good concepts for assigning projects to employees whose thought process and personalities fit their orientation a project based on the diamond methodology.
A very useful model for seeing the gaps and risks in a project.
The authors explain that the usual linear description of project management is not only out of step with modern projects, it also doesn't provide any insight of the risks involved in the project. The Diamond model presented in this book uses a four axis graph that captures the level of Novelty, Technology, Complexity and Pace required by the project. Diamond comes from the shape of the graph if each of these four factors is in the middle. However they almost never are all middling. You are supposed to graph both the project requirements and your team's present capabilities. The gap between the two indicates the risk. It also gives management a target for closing the gap in order to maximize the opportunity for project success.
Novelty measures how much about the project is new and how new it is to your team. Technology captures how edgy the technology is. Complexity measures the simplicity of the deliverable (say, a ball bearing) or how complex it is (a regional communications grid). Pace captures the time urgency of the project (time isn't really a factor to it was needed yesterday).
I think this is a useful tool and the graph can be a great way to get a quick picture of the project. It can also be a useful management tool and a means for discussion with the project team. Oh, and if the project goes on for an extended time, the diamond's shape will change. So, it should be redrawn with some regularity to keep everyone one the same graph and to be sure that the team membership is appropriate to the latest shape.
Quite interesting for project management types.
Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI
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