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The Backpacker’s Guide to Lightweight PM
Jeff Oltmann, PMP
(January 6, 2010)
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The formidable body of project management knowledge can overwhelm less experienced practitioners and organizations getting started. They can see the benefits but despair at their ability to adopt an extensive set of best practices and the complex enterprise changes required. They need a lightweight, simple way to start — a backpacker’s approach to project management.
The field of project management has been around for decades, and the accumulated technical knowledge often feels overwhelming to newcomers. For example, my favorite introductory project management book gets longer with each new edition and now weighs in at 462 pages. Both academic researchers and practicing project managers add new expertise to the field daily, as they explore new ideas such as agile project management.
In my experience, this formidable body of knowledge intimidates many organizations that are newcomers to formal project management. These newcomers can see the benefits of good project management merely by observing their competitors, but they despair at their ability to adopt an extensive set of project management best practices. They are starting from a very low level of project management maturity. Chaos reigns, and the organizational changes required to implement the full suite of project management techniques are too great. They need a lightweight, simple way to start — a backpacker’s approach to project management.
Let me share six of the lessons I’ve learned about introducing project management where there is none.
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