A comment on “PMOs and Sysiphus” by Randy Englund
December 9, 2009 @ Better Projects from Craig Brown
- Read PMOs and Sysiphus here.
Bureaucracy is a tool used to control.
It controls change and controls compliance with defined standards and it tries to control how people do thier jobs. Bureacracy is by it's nature fairly change resistant.
When Randy Englund uses Lewin's rubber band metaphor to describe how change only lasts as long as the tension is maintained, I found myself agreeing with reservations.
The rubber band story in the blog post is about maintaining the tension, from an organised state holding back from a snap return to dissolute. In particular Randy has a call to action to project professionals; that our projects goals are secondary to something larger - the organisation's ever growing maturity and capability.
What are my reservations? I think that thee are plenty of techniques and tools to help us guide people through change, and that things, when managed well, will not snap back like a stretched rubber band. But that last sentence is loaded, so it doesn't apply to every scenario.
Planning and executing change are important. But equally important is nurturing it.
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