PM CAPABILITIES BEYOND METHODOLOGY. Applying Personal Practical Wisdom

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1 PM CAPABILITIES BEYOND METHODOLOGY Applying Personal Practical Wisdom

2 About me Experience Started in IT - 13 years Then PM 20 years, mostly financial sector Qualifications B.Sc. Information systems and Psychology UNISA Hons B.Sc. Psychology UNISA EMBA in progress: MBA in Executive Management UCT/GSB 2018 Special Interests Project rescue

3 About me The next chapter: business 18 months consultation Wildlife Producers Association Admin company

4 And suddenly you know: It s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings (Meister Eckhart)

5 Main Ideas We cause new beginnings, discomfort, change Gap between the reality of projects and the methodology s artefacts What is this Gap (if any)? What can we do about it? Practical wisdom (phronesis) Threshold spaces (liminal spaces)

6 Conversations about the gap Christophe Bredillet, Professor of Organisational Project Management, Director DBA programme & MSc in PM joint UQ Network programme. Queensland University of Technology Difference between lived experience and project artefacts Phronetic gap (practical wisdom gap) Bronte van der Hoorn. Projects and Visualisation Specialist Project as experience, not an object Providing the Capability to undertake the activity Missing masses

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10 Messiness Order disorder cycles Building new product: need for innovation Need for nurturing Ambiguity Chaos & complexity Individual: Level of evidence of wisdom Project shared VISION (why & how) Virtue of Orchestration PM Evidencing PPW Uncertainty Newly constructed team - unfamiliarity Opportunities for liminal experiences Team: Qualitative experience of passing through this Need for structure Pressure and expectations Creative, Chaotic and Complex

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12 Evidence based practical wisdom in a project PM Share the Project VISION (why & how) Intellectual Virtue of Orchestration Develop Team / tribe cohesion Information dissemination Underpinned by: Sound knowledge of methodologies and correct use of artefacts Facilitate creative/artistic solutions Servant leader stance/enabler of others Coach and mentor, teach Tasks for the manifestation of the Intellectual Virtue of Orchestration, which could bridge the phronetic gap

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14 Aristotle said Aristotle classified knowledge in three different types: Episteme (Scientific Knowledge), Techné (Skill and crafts) and Phronesis (Wisdom) Phronesis: What remains, then is that it is a true state, reasoned, and capable of action with regard to things that are good or bad for man. We consider that this quality belongs to those who understand the management of households or states. [N.E. 1140a b12].

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16 Action Insight Action the desire to change what I think (wisdom in thought) Understanding how to change what I think Action the desire to change how & what I do (wisdom in practice) Understanding how my actions can manifest that which I think Ability to moderate my thoughts Ability to moderate my actions Ability Ability to have compassion / empathy Ability to apply ethical judgment Ability to recognise fears / concerns Ability to release fears / be brave Ability to examine actions /learn Ability to be present in the moment Desire Desire to change what I think Desire to change how & what I do PHRONESIS PRACTICE Willing Willingness to change what I think Willingness to change what I do Belief Belief that I can change what I think Belief that I can change my actions PRE-REQUISITE TO PRACTICE

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18 ABILITY DIAGRAM This diagram is about ABILITY, which is part of the bigger phronesis diagram. Ability to be present in the moment Ability to have compassion & empathy Ability to examine actions & reflexive learning Reflect on actions of others Reflect on own actions Ability to moderate my ACTIONS Ability to moderate my THOUGHTS Decide right and wrong for self Decide right and wrong for others and greater good Ability to apply ethical judgment Ability to release fears / be brave Ability to recognise fears / concerns

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20 Between worlds It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds. Paula McLain, The Paris Wife

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24 Bringing it together.. Recognise the threshold Holding still in chaos Being brave / bold Take action

25 Evidence based practical wisdom in a project PM Share the Project VISION (why & how) Intellectual Virtue of Orchestration Develop Team / tribe cohesion Information dissemination Underpinned by: Sound knowledge of methodologies and correct use of artefacts Facilitate creative/artistic solutions Servant leader stance/enabler of others Coach and mentor, teach Tasks for the manifestation of the Intellectual Virtue of Orchestration, which could bridge the phronetic gap

26 Action Insight Action the desire to change what I think (wisdom in thought) Understanding how to change what I think Action the desire to change how & what I do (wisdom in practice) Understanding how my actions can manifest that which I think Ability to moderate my thoughts Ability to moderate my actions Ability Ability to have compassion / empathy Ability to apply ethical judgment Ability to recognise fears / concerns Ability to release fears / be brave Ability to examine actions /learn Ability to be present in the moment Desire Desire to change what I think Desire to change how & what I do PHRONESIS PRACTICE Willing Willingness to change what I think Willingness to change what I do Belief Belief that I can change what I think Belief that I can change my actions PRE-REQUISITE TO PRACTICE

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